Strikes Israel -Iran: Trump maintains uncertainty

Donald Trump assured the press on Wednesday that he had not yet taken a decision on whether the United States would participate in Israel's strikes against Iran, telling the press: “Maybe I'll do it, maybe I won't.”

“Nobody knows what I'm going to do,” added the American president, launching a long exchange with journalists on the White House lawn.

As speculations intensify about a possible direct participation of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran, after several days of intense exchanges of fire between the two enemy countries, Donald Trump later launched: “I have not taken (any) final (decision)”.

On the seventh day of its offensive against the Islamic Republic, the Israeli army said on Thursday it was carrying out a series of strikes in Iran, especially in Tehran, and called for the evacuation of the Iranian villages of Arak and Khondab located near nuclear installations, warning of imminent bombings.

NATO: Putin says rearmament is not a “threat” to Russia

Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the rearmament of NATO was not a “threat” for Russia because his country has, in his opinion, the “defense capabilities” necessary to deal with it, after more than three years of conflict in Ukraine that militarized the Russian state.

In parallel, the Russian president welcomed the fact that his army is progressing “every day” on the front line, in the face of a smaller and struggling Ukrainian army.

The Atlantic Alliance, which is due to meet at a summit next week in The Hague (Netherlands), is pushing its members to increase their security spending, in the hot context of the conflict in Ukraine, triggered by the 2022 Russian assault on its neighbor.

Criminal definition of rape: Non-consent soon to be integrated

"A decisive step towards a true culture of consent”: the Senate agreed Wednesday evening to a highly symbolic modification of the criminal definition of rape to include the concept of non-consent to include the notion of non-consent, activating the emergence of a parliamentary consensus on this sensitive legal debate.

A few months after the resounding Mazan rape trial, during which consent had taken a central place, criminal law could soon be clarified by including, black and white, this concept.

The Senate has in fact positioned itself very widely for this substantial evolution of the penal code, with the unanimous adoption of a transpartisan bill, despite some abstentions, in particular from communist ranks.

Harvest in Champagne: a human trafficking trial opens in Châlons-en-Champagne

Three people are appearing on Thursday before the Criminal Court of Châlons-en-Champagne for human trafficking, suspected of having exploited and housed in unworthy conditions 57 workers, most of them in an irregular situation, during the 2023 harvest in the prestigious Champagne vineyard.

The trial, scheduled for one day, will start at 9:00am. Before the hearing, a rally is planned in front of the court, at the call of the CGT Champagne

Among the defendants is the director of Anavim, a wine services company. This 44-year-old woman from Kyrgyzstan is also being prosecuted for hidden work, the employment of foreigners without a permit for paid work, and the subjection of vulnerable people to undignified housing conditions and with no or insufficient remuneration

IN A NUTSHELL

Greenhouse gas, sea level rise, 1.5degC warming threshold: a dozen key climate indicators are in the red, alert some sixty renowned researchers in a vast global study published on Thursday.

Temperatures will rise in France in the coming days to 38degC locally, a heat wave that will reach its peak on Saturday before cooling expected on Sunday, announced Météo-France.

An alleged trafficking in protected bird species, involving a dozen defendants including ornithologists, an animal park or even a retailer in Belgium, will be Thursday in the Lot at the heart of an unprecedented trial in France, according to the civil parties

A former childminder, sentenced in 2024 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment for causing the death of a baby by shaking it violently, is being tried on appeal from Thursday in Colmar (Haut-Rhin).

The Los Angeles Lakers are on the verge of being sold for a record 10 billion dollars (8.7 billion euros), reports the American media ESPN on Wednesday, a sum that would make the NBA franchise the most expensive in the history of sports in the United States.