Artificial intelligence: Trump announces giant private investment

The day after his inauguration, Donald Trump announced on Tuesday a giant private investment in artificial intelligence and launched his campaign of political revenge. The Republican president praised to the press a project called “Stargate”, promising investments of “at least 500 billion dollars” in technological infrastructures in the United States.

Customs duties: Chinese products will be taxed at 10% starting on February 1

US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Chinese products will be taxed at 10% beginning on February 1. In reality, Europeans will be subject to customs duties, “the only way” for the United States “to be treated properly”, according to the president. Trump also assured that his government was discussing “10% tariffs on Chinese products because they send fentanyl to Mexico and Canada”, which is ultimately consumed in the United States.

Agricultural orientation: a law passed in Senate committee

Before being examined in public session on 4 February, the agricultural policy bill, long awaited by the unions and repeatedly rejected, resumed its parliamentary path on Tuesday with its adoption in committee in the Senate. The bill was adopted in the first reading in the National Assembly on 28 May, just before the dissolution, with the votes of Macronist deputies and some of the LR deputies

Senators will examine it at much greater length in the hemicycle starting on February 4, with a final vote scheduled for February 18, just a few days before the opening of the Agricultural Show scheduled for February 22 to March 2 in Paris.

Algiers: release of a Spaniard kidnapped at the Algerian-Malian border

The Tuareg rebels in northern Mali announced that a Spaniard, kidnapped in mid-January between Algeria and Mali, had been freed on Monday thanks to their intervention. According to the Algerian authorities, the Tuareg rebels would “later” hand him over to his country. According to the Algerian Ministry of Defence, he “is in good health” and will be “handed over to the Spanish authorities later”.

Knife attack: five people injured in Tel Aviv

A foreign national who arrived in Israel a few days earlier injured five people, including one seriously on Tuesday in Tel Aviv in a stabbing attack. According to the Israeli authorities, the author was shot dead. In a statement, police said the attack took place around 9:10 p.m. (19:10 GMT) in a busy neighborhood in Tel Aviv

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On Tuesday, Donald Trump deemed new sanctions against Russia “likely” if Moscow does not negotiate the end of the war against Ukraine.

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