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Following the European elections, business life, wars in Gaza and Ukraine… All the news from this Tuesday June 11 can be followed here.
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7:35 a.m. – Israeli army announces the death of four soldiers in southern Gaza
According to the Israeli army, the four soldiers were killed Monday yesterday by an explosion in a booby-trapped building in Rafah. Seven other soldiers were injured, five of them seriously, according to the IDF.
According to an initial investigation, the soldiers had thrown an explosive inside a suspicious house in order to trigger possible traps. They entered without there being an immediate explosion in the three-story building which then exploded. Inside the house, the military later discovered a tunnel shaft, indicating that the building likely belonged to a Hamas member.
7:15 a.m. – Atos: the board of directors confirms choosing the Onepoint offer
The directors met at 9 p.m. They chose, as we indicated Monday evening, the project of the boss of OnePoint, which the creditors prefer to that of the Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky.
In its press release published early this morning, the group states that it considers that “the proposal received by the Onepoint consortium is the best oriented in terms of the social interest of the Company, in particular of its employees and its customers”.
6:55 a.m. – Switzerland: the merger between UBS and Credit Suisse possible “from the 1erJuly »
The director of UBS Switzerland Sabine Keller-Busse accelerates the merger of the Swiss divisions of UBS and Credit Suisse. In an interview broadcast by the Swiss daily “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”, she believes that the merger between the two establishments “could take place as early as July 1, 2024”.
An operation which should firstly concern employees (with nearly 1,000 job cuts) and will result in a reduction in the total number of bank branches: according to her the objective is that the merged bank will only have 194 branches in Swiss. Currently, UBS has 190 and Credit Suisse 95.
6:40 a.m. – Five dead, including three Hezbollah members in an Israeli strike on the Syrian-Lebanese border
They were killed before midnight yesterday in strikes targeting a convoy of fuel trucks entering Lebanon from neighboring Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and military sources said. The Israeli army also claimed strikes in southern Lebanon, saying it carried out these operations after one of its drones was shot down yesterday in the Lebanese sky.
6:21 a.m. – Fatal turbulence: Singapore Airlines will compensate the injured
Singapore Airlines announces that it has offered compensation of 10,000 dollars (9,287 euros) to passengers who suffered minor injuries on a flight subjected to violent turbulence last month. The company also says it will discuss higher amounts with those who were seriously injured.
The latter were “invited to discuss a compensation offer adapted to their specific situation when they feel well and ready to do so”, specifies the airline in a press release. The company will also reimburse the plane tickets of all passengers on the traumatic flight, including those who were not injured.
6:14 a.m. – A summit in Jordan to raise funds for the people of Gaza
Jordan is organizing an international conference aimed at raising funds for humanitarian aid for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, devastated by eight months of war. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who began a new tour of the Middle East yesterday to plead for a ceasefire, will attend this conference organized jointly by the United Nations, Jordan and Egypt.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders are also expected there, as well as UN humanitarian affairs chief Martin Griffiths and NGO leaders. “The main objective of this summit is to reach consensus on practical measures to address immediate needs on the ground,” according to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry.
6:08 a.m. – North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border into the South
About ten North Korean soldiers crossed the Military Demarcation Line in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas on Sunday around 12:30 p.m., the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) announced today.
According to Seoul JCS spokesperson Colonel Lee Sung-jun, these soldiers who carried tools for work inside the DMZ probably did not intend to cross this demarcation line because they left immediately after the warning shots from the South Korean military.
6:07 a.m. – The Daniel Kretinsky version of the Casino group brings together its shareholders in Paris
The distributor, which owns the Monoprix, Franprix, Naturalia and Vival brands, is bringing together its shareholders today in Paris for the first time since its new owners, led by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, took charge at the end of March.
Shareholders will be called upon to ratify the appointment of the new board of directors, starting with its president Laurent Pietraszewski. The former Macronist Secretary of State, responsible for Pensions and Occupational Health, had previously worked for the northern distributor Auchan.
6:04 a.m. – Marine traffic in Baltimore fully restored
The access channel to the Port of Baltimore is now fully reopened to maritime traffic, the US military announced, two and a half months after the catastrophic collapse of a bridge following the accident of a flagged container ship Singaporean. “Some 50,000 tons of debris from the bridge” were cleared from the river, according to the authorities. At the end of May, the container ship was refloated and towed to a nearby shipyard.
6:08 a.m. – Nearly 400 million young children victims of violent discipline methods
Shouts, insults, spankings, slaps… Nearly 400 million children under the age of 5, or six out of ten in the world, are regularly victims of violent disciplinary sanctions at home, according to Unicef. These estimates published last night by the United Nations Children’s Fund cover around a hundred countries with this type of data between 2010 and 2023, which include “psychological aggression” and “corporal punishment”.
Of the nearly 400 million children who are victims of these violent discipline methods, approximately 330 million experience physical punishment. Although more and more countries ban corporal punishment, nearly half a billion children under the age of 5 are not legally protected against these practices.
6:04 a.m. – Intel suspends plans to expand factory in Israel
The American group had indicated, at the end of December, its intention to expand the Kiryat Gat site, in the south of the country, currently under construction. This was an addition to a factory announced in early 2019, in a location where Intel already had operations. The investment represented 15 billion dollars.
The American giant, established in Israel for fifty years and the largest employer in the technology sector in Israel, made no reference to the war ravaging the Gaza Strip to explain its decision.
6:00 a.m. – Mexico: the president open to dialogue on the reform of the judiciary
The president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, who will take office on October 1, promised, during her first press conference, a “broad” discussion on the theme of the reform of the judiciary launched by her predecessor and political mentor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. She also indicated that she would receive a “delegation” from US President Joe Biden today. Without giving further details on the themes of this visit.