announcement of an unlimited strike at the SNCF, Benyamin Netanyahu takes responsibility for the pager attack against Hezbollah, start of the Vendée Globe

Benjamin Netanyahu admits having authorized the attack on Lebanese Hezbollah pagers

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time, Sunday November 10, to having authorized the pager attack against Lebanese Hezbollah in September, his spokesperson Omer Dostri told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

At the beginning of September, the simultaneous explosion of transmission devices of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement – ​​pagers, then, the next day, walkie-talkies – left nearly 40 dead and 3,000 injured, according to the Minister of Health Lebanese, Firass Abiad.

Qatar suspends mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas

Qatar confirmed on Saturday, November 9, that it had suspended its mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas. At the end of October, “during the last [négociations] In an attempt to reach an agreement, Qatar informed the parties that it intended to suspend its mediation efforts if an agreement was not reached during this round.said Qatar’s foreign affairs spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari.

“Qatar will take them back when the parties demonstrate willingness and seriousness” to end hostilities, he added, while Hamas and Israel accuse each other of blocking any agreement. The only truce in this war, triggered on October 7, 2023 by a Hamas attack against Israel, saw the light of day at the end of November 2023. It lasted a week and allowed the release of hostages kidnapped during the attack and taken to the Gaza Strip in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

SNCF unions call for an indefinite strike from December 11 against the dismantling of the freight subsidiary

https://twitter.com/victorjoanin/status/1855182960959385861the CGT-Cheminots, the UNSA-Ferroviaire, SUD-Rail and the CFDT-Cheminots explained on Saturday that, faced with “lack of inflection” from the group’s management, the strike will be unlimited and renewable for periods of twenty-four hours starting on December 11, at 7 p.m. The unions also reiterate their call for a strike from November 20, at 7 p.m., to November 22, at 8 a.m.

Fret SNCF, the leading rail freight company in France, must disappear on 1^is January 2025 to be reborn in the form of two distinct companies called Hexafret, for freight transport, and Technis, for locomotive maintenance.

Donald Trump wins Arizona, the last key state, and confirms the scale of his victory against Kamala Harris

With this success in Arizona announced Sunday by the American news agency Associated Press, the Republican candidate and president-elect has now won the seven swing states. He had already been declared the winner in Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada.

The eleven electoral votes won in Arizona do not change the outcome of the election, but confirm the scale of his victory against Democrat Kamala Harris. In total, he won by 312 electors to 226. He did better than in 2016, when he dominated, for his first presidential election, Hillary Clinton by 306 electors to 232. And better than Joe Biden in 2020 who , he too, won by 306 voters. He is also expected to win the popular vote.

The departure of the 10^e edition of the Vendée Globe was given

The departure of the 10^e edition of the Vendée Globe, a famous solo round-the-world race without stopover and without assistance, took place on Sunday off the coast of Les Sables-d’Olonne. After being cheered by a dense crowd as they exited the channel, the forty skippers set off at 1:02 p.m. in light winds (4 to 7 knots on average) for a journey around the planet which is expected to last more than two months.

The fastest to have ever completed the exercise is Armel Le Cléac’h in 2016-2017 (74 days and 3 hours). The speed and reliability of the boats of this 10^e edition suggest that the record could fall early next year. But the weather forecast for the first days of the race will not work in favor of the competitors. Like Sunday, the light weather should limit the risk of breakage and also slow down the fleet significantly up to the coast of Cape Finisterre, in Spain.

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