Sky! Gims filmed his last clip in Verbier, without saying anything to the OT

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Today’s highlights

WEF: Federal President Karin Keller-Sutter officially launches the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Tuesday in Davos (GR). Several headliners are scheduled to speak during the day, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Attention will also be focused on the comments of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, while a fragile truce began on Sunday in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and far-right opponent Friedrich Merz must also intervene.

UNITED STATES: Barely inaugurated president of the United States of America, Donald Trump signed his first decrees on Monday in front of excited supporters, gathered in a room in Washington. In particular, he pardoned 1,500 people convicted of having attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to prevent the certification of the victory of his predecessor Joe Biden.

The Republican billionaire also suspended the ban on TikTok, slammed the door on the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, declared a state of emergency allowing the army to be mobilized at the border with Mexico and called into question land law, to fight against illegal immigration.

SOUTH KOREA: Suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is due to attend a hearing in his impeachment trial for the first time on Tuesday, one of his lawyers said. Mr. Yoon was seized from power on December 14 by Parliament, which passed an impeachment motion against him for his short-lived imposition of martial law 11 days earlier. The eight judges of the constitutional court have until mid-June to ratify this sanction and permanently dismiss him or give him back his seat.

ALPINE SKIING: Plan de Corones, Italy, welcomes on Tuesday the fifth of nine women’s giants on the menu for the Alpine Ski World Cup this winter. The Italians will be the favorites, starting with Federica Brignone, 3rd in downhill and 1st in super-G a few days ago in Cortina. On the Swiss side, Camille Rast is aiming for a second podium in the discipline after her 3rd place in Killington, while Lara Gut-Behrami hopes to finally find the giant click.

ICE HOCKEY: Genève-Servette will need a miracle on Tuesday evening from 8:15 p.m. in Zurich to hope to victoriously defend its ice hockey Champions League title. The Geneva team enters the semi-final return with a handicap of five goals in the Swiss derby which pits it against the Zurich Lions. The Genevans lost 6-1 in the first leg last Wednesday at Vernets.

Seen in the press

MUSIQUE: Congolese rapper Gims filmed his “Ciel” video a week ago in Verbier (VS), Le Nouvelliste noted on Tuesday. The tourist office of the Valais resort was not aware of this. “We discovered it on the networks at the same time as everyone else,” he explains in the newspaper.

“In Switzerland, unless you have to close a road or a place, you can turn around rather freely,” adds the office. The title has been a hit since its release two days ago, with nearly a million views on YouTube. It is currently at the top of the Top 50 France on Spotify.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: The lack of space in accommodation for women and children victims of violence is so significant that a Zurich woman had to be accommodated in Ticino, due to a lack of space in Zurich and neighboring cantons, the Aargauer Zeitung, Luzerner reported on Tuesday Zeitung and the St. Galler Tagblatt.

Such placements are often distressing for victims of violence, especially for families with children of school age, Sandra Müller Gmünder, director of the Zurich victim support center, explains in the newspapers. The German-speaking canton has created enough capacity, but it welcomes many victims from other regions, which regularly causes shortages of places, she adds.

COMPUTER SCIENCE: The Confederation awarded Mircrosoft a software license contract for 150 million francs without a call for tenders, denounces Matthias Stürmer, professor of digitization at the Berne University of Applied Sciences BFH, in Tuesday’s Blick. “All this […] without competition, out of pure dependence,” he adds. The Federal Office for Construction and Logistics (FOCL) justifies in the newspaper the award of the private contract by “the deep integration into the existing system environment”.

Birthdays and jubilees

– 5 years ago (2020): death of British actor and director Terry Jones, member of Monty Python. He directed the film “The Life of Brian” and co-directed “Monty Python Sacred Grail”.

– 25 years ago (2000): a total lunar eclipse was observed in Europe.

– 70 years ago (1955): birth of the American artist Jeff Koons, known for his kitsch and large works such as the “balloon dog” or “Puppy”.

– 75 years ago (1950): death of the British writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair (“Animal Farm”, “1984”). He was born in 1903.

– Il y a 75 ans (1950): naissance du chanteur britannique Billy Ocean (“Caribbean Queen», «When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going”).

– 120 years ago (1905): birth of French fashion designer Christian Dior.

Saying of the day

“Saint Agnes Day, never too cold”.