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12.11.2024
Today’s highlights
SHOPPING TOURISM: The Committee on Economy and Fees of the Council of States has looked into the question of shopping tourism. She could take a position on Tuesday, following initiatives from the cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau.
VIOLENCE : The Bernese Executive Council and the cantonal police are launching the “No Room for Hate” initiative on Tuesday. The government supports appropriate measures to combat hate crime and discrimination. The police are currently seeing an increase in questions and reports, often linked to religious affiliation. It is therefore strengthening its prevention measures and offering schools additional support.
UNITED STATES : A New York judge must rule Tuesday on the legality of the criminal conviction of US President-elect Donald Trump in the case of hidden payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. He must issue his written decision on a request from the defense to cancel the entire procedure, after the Federal Supreme Court considerably extended presidential immunity on July 1. Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of 12 citizens of 34 counts of accounting falsification to hide from voters the payment of $130,000 to Ms. Daniels. Sentencing is scheduled for November 26.
CLIMATE : A Dutch court delivers its verdict on Tuesday concerning the appeal of oil giant Shell, accused by seven environmental NGOs of not having implemented a 2021 judgment ordering it to align with the 2015 Paris agreement on the climate. In 2021, the court ordered the Anglo-Dutch group to reduce its net CO2 emissions by at least 45% by the end of 2030 compared to 2019. Shell appealed the decision, considering that it did not There is no legal basis for NGO demands.
Seen in the press
TIE: The Federal Court validated the challenge of a Geneva prosecutor, who had associated Jewishness and risk of flight in a case of subletting apartments to undeclared prostitutes in Geneva, Le Temps reported on Tuesday. The request came from the defense of a Swiss man of Jewish faith accused of professional usury, money laundering and tax evasion in particular. The high court underlines in its judgment that the prosecutor “gives the appearance that he treats the appellant differently” because of his religion. The file is sent back to the cantonal court with instructions to appoint a new prosecutor and to determine which investigative acts must be canceled.
CLIMATE : The British University of Cambridge has calculated that a 15% reduction in aircraft speed would make it possible to burn 7% less kerosene and therefore emit less CO2, the Aargauer Zeitung, the Luzerner Zeitung and the St. Galler Tagblatt. The downside would be a longer flight time. A flight between Europe and America would thus be lengthened by fifty minutes, which would reduce airline productivity. The speed reduction has already been implemented, explains Swiss spokesperson Michael Stief in the newspapers. But “a general speed reduction of 15% is not feasible, because we would then enter an area of the aerodynamic resistance curve in which CO2 emissions would increase,” he adds.
Birthdays and jubilees
– 10 years ago (2014): The Philae space probe of the European Space Agency (ESA) lands on the comet “Tchouri” (67P/Tchourioumov-Gérassimenko) and transmits photographs to Earth. This is the first time in the history of astronautics that a spacecraft has successfully landed on a comet.
– 30 years ago (1994): death of the legendary American sprinter Wilma Rudolph, nicknamed the “black gazelle”, triple gold medal at the Rome Olympic Games in 1960 (100 meters, 200 meters, 4 x 100 meters relay). She was born in 1940.
– 60 years ago (1964): birth in Czechoslovakia of Swiss tennis player Jakob Hlasek.
– 80 years ago (1944): British Royal Air Force bombers sink the Tirpitz, the largest German battleship of the Second World War, off the Norwegian city of Tromsø.
– 90 years ago (1934): birth of Charles Manson, former guru of a sect who ordered a series of murders committed in the late 1960s in California.
Saying of the day
“Blood weather, forecast of rain for the next day”.
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