South Korea: Yoon Suk Yeol arrested Wednesday

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday. It was after a new assault on his residence, investigators who want to question him about his failed attempt to impose martial law in early December. Suspended by the deputies and targeted by an investigation for “rebellion”, the president had until now always refused to explain himself since his coup, pushing prosecutors to use arrest warrants in order to take him into custody.

Pensions: Bayrou agrees to go back on the reform

By announcing a three-month renegotiation “conclave” “with no taboos” on leaving at 64, François Bayrou resolved to return to Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. But the socialists are asking him to go further to avoid censorship. La France Insoumise immediately submitted a motion, which will be discussed on Thursday, but which the National Rally should not vote, hampering its chances of succeeding.

Senate: Marco Rubio passes his grand oral

Marco Rubio, the next head of American diplomacy, is giving his grand oral to the Senate on Wednesday in order to confirm his nomination. Before the Foreign Affairs Committee, the potential future Secretary of State must state during his opening remarks that the post-Cold War world order is not only “obsolete”, but that it has become “now a weapon used” against the United States.

Twitter share purchase in 2022: Musk sued
A complaint was filed on Tuesday against Elon Musk for not disclosing “in due time” a takeover of Twitter shares in 2022, before taking control of the platform. This complaint comes from the American Financial Market Regulatory Authority (SEC). According to the SEC in its complaint, “Elon Musk did not timely declare to the SEC (...) his acquisition of more than 5% of the outstanding common shares of Twitter in March 2022; which allowed him to pay an artificially low price.” According to the American stock market policeman, this omission would have allowed the boss of Tesla and SpaceX “not to pay at least 150 million dollars for shares that he purchased after the expiry of his declaration of beneficial ownership” of Twitter (now X).

IN SHORT

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Tuesday that an alleged outbreak of the Marburg virus in Tanzania had killed eight people.

While the main opponent has once again called to “paralyze” the country with daily demonstrations, the elected president of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, 48, must be invested Wednesday in a capital crisscrossed by security forces.

Hot and powerful winds threaten on Tuesday to further fan the flames that have been disfiguring the second largest city in the United States for a week.

Prime Minister François Bayrou promised “significant savings” to reduce France's heavy “over-indebtedness”. The country is forced to review its growth and public deficit forecasts for 2025.

Lille qualified beat Marseille on penalties (1-1, 4 tabs to 3), at the Velodrome Stadium, qualifying for the round of 16 of the Coupe de France.

The certification and quality control group Bureau Veritas is in discussions Wednesday with the Swiss group SGS with a view to a potential merger.

JPMorgan raised its recommendation on Wednesday on the stock of external display specialist JCDecaux from “underweighted” to “neutral”. He raised his price target from 13 euros to 17 euros.

Tuesday evening, the manufacturer of cryogenic membranes for the transport of liquefied natural gas Gaztransport and Technigaz (GTT) announced that it had won an order from the Chinese shipyard Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding concerning the design of tanks for six “new very large” LNG carriers.