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Today’s highlights
NEUCHÂTEL: The Greens of Neuchâtel meet on Saturday in a general assembly in La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) to nominate two candidates for the election to the Council of State in 2025 from among three contenders. State Councilor Céline Vara is a candidate, as is MP and former party president Christine Ammann Tschopp as well as cultural consultant Cyril Tissot.
DIPLOMACY: In the shadow of Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the American presidential election on November 5, American President Joe Biden meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Lima on Saturday, on the sidelines of the Asian Economic Cooperation summit -Pacific (APEC), which brings together in Peru 21 countries accounting for 60% of world GDP. This will be the third meeting between the two men and the second in just over a year. It promises to be crucial, as relations between the United States and China have been tense in recent years. Both will then travel to the G20 summit in Brazil.
TODAY IS…: Like every November 16, today is World Food Day. It aims to improve awareness of hunger on a global scale and encourages actions for the future of food, people and the planet. All information on the UN website:
https://www.fao.org/world-food-day/home/fr/?no_cache=1
Seen in the press
DIPLOMACY: Collaboration between Switzerland and the United States of America worked well during Donald Trump’s first term as American president (2017-2021), notes UDC Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin in Saturday’s Schweiz am Wochenende. The head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (DEFR) says he is cautiously optimistic regarding economic and scientific cooperation for the second term of the Republican billionaire, re-elected on November 5.
DEFENSE: Ruag MRO has developed for the Swiss army, in collaboration with the Geneva company Wisekey, a secure smartphone called “Guardian”, Schweiz am Sonntag said on Saturday. The prototype is based on a commercially available Samsung phone. The latter’s operating system has been extensively modified to ensure maximum data security, a Ruag spokesperson explains in the newspaper. “Guardian” must ensure confidential communication of the army and the authorities and can connect not only to 5G, but also to a network of satellites, he adds.
WILDLIFE: Valais would have overestimated the number of wolf packs during the first regulation in 2023, estimates an analysis by the Valais Wildlife Biology Society fauna.vs, relayed on Saturday by Le Nouvelliste. The canton had eight to nine packs of wolves, according to this study, or 4 to 5 fewer than the thirteen announced by the authorities. “With seven packs in the sights”, the request for wolf regulation filed by the Valais authorities with the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) would have targeted “between 78% and 88% of Valais packs, far from the 54 % communicated by the canton”, affirms in the newspaper the Valais biologist Raphaël Arlettaz, author of the analysis. He proposes to create a working group to analyze this data as best as possible, an appeal already rejected by the canton.
DOUBLE MURDER: The man who shot his 38-year-old wife and 17-year-old daughter before killing himself at the end of October in La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) had been planning his act for several weeks, even months , explains Saturday in ArcInfo the prosecutor in charge of the case, Nicolas Aubert. The police found a printed letter in the apartment, he adds. It was taken from a digital document “dated several months ago” and had been printed “the very morning of the tragedy”. The author justifies his action due to financial concerns and debts, continues the prosecutor. “The elements collected lead us to believe that these homicides were committed so as not to disappoint those around them if the financial reality had been discovered.”
LITERATURE: The Swiss National Library has purchased the archives of Bernese writer Lukas Bärfuss for 350,000 francs, the newspaper Blick reported on Saturday. The purchase includes past and future documents by this major German-speaking author, aged 52. “This sum is based on comparison with other funds in the collection and on two independent estimates of the documents,” the Swiss National Library indicates in the newspaper. Lukas Bärfuss, who lives in Zurich, has made a name for himself beyond Swiss borders as a novelist, director and essayist with a sharp pen. He is one of the rare Swiss writers to have been awarded the German Georg Büchner Prize (2019), in addition to numerous distinctions.
Birthdays and jubilees
– 5 years ago (2019): death of French singer Eric Morena (“Oh! my boat”). He was born in 1951.
– 5 years ago (2019): death of French singer Fred Mella, soloist, troupe leader and last survivor of the “Compagnons de la chanson”.
– 30 years ago (1994): death of American singer Dino Valenti, composer of the song “Hey Joe”, covered in particular by Jimi Hendrix and Johnny Hallyday. He was born in 1937.
– 50 years ago (1974): Arecibo’s message to possible extraterrestrials is beamed into space as a radio wave signal broadcast from the Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.
– 60 years ago (1964): birth of the Franco-Italian actress and director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (“Normal people have nothing exceptional”, “La Ligne”).
– 60 years ago (1964): birth of Canadian jazz pianist and singer Diana Krall.
– 80 years ago (1944): creation of the Swedish tabloid “Expressen”.
– 110 years ago (1914): the banks of the Federal Reserve System of the United States, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, began their activities.
Saying of the day
“Fog in November, winter will be tender.”
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