Pensions: the tumultuous reform reviews resume on Monday

Under pressure from the streets and trade unions, which are threatening to bring France to a standstill on March 7, the National Assembly resumed its tumultuous examination of the pension reform on Monday afternoon. Debates will resume at 16:00 at the Palais-Bourbon and will end at midnight on Friday at midnight at first reading, whether or not deputies have completed consideration of the bill, which will then go to the Senate. They will be punctuated, on Thursday, by a fifth day of action at the call of the inter-syndicate.

Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: the UN recognizes shortcomings in the delivery of aid to the Syrian regions

To date, the earthquake toll has risen to more than 33,000 deaths and could double again. The UN has acknowledged shortcomings in the delivery of aid to war-torn regions in Syria, where a new convoy has arrived with emergency supplies for earthquake victims. On Twitter, the head of the UN humanitarian agency, Martin Griffiths, announced that: “So far we have failed the people of north-west Syria.” According to him, the victims “rightly feel abandoned and this failure must be corrected as soon as possible.”

Furthermore, cases of miraculous rescues far beyond the crucial period of 72 hours after the disaster continue to be reported by emergency services and the media in Turkey. Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele said a woman and a child were pulled alive from the rubble on Sunday by a team of Salvadorans in Sehit Aileleri.

combat/ Washington: a plane shot down a new “object” flying near the Canadian border

On Sunday, an American fighter jet shot down a new “object” flying near the Canadian border. Since military radars were improved following the destruction of a supposed Chinese spy balloon, this is the latest of the three mysterious craft spotted. Although only the first object has been attributed to Beijing so far, the Americans are watching the skies with concern as mysterious incursions follow one another amid heightened tensions with China. The Pentagon said Sunday that it currently did not know the nature of the other three objects; one shot down Friday over Alaska, one Saturday over the Canadian territory of Yukon and the most recent Sunday over Lake Huron, which separates the American state of Michigan from the Canadian province of Ontario.

Pedocrime: an independent commission reports the conclusions of its investigations on Monday

An independent commission delivers its findings Monday after collecting hundreds of testimonies. This team is tasked by the Portuguese Catholic Church to investigate sexual violence committed by members of the clergy against minors since 1950. Indeed, made up of six experts, the team is led over more than a year by the child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht who will present his final report in the morning. The Bishop of Leiria-Fatima José Ornelas, president of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, will react at the end of the day. The members of the commission had reported 424 validated testimonies, whose revelations, however, concerned a “much larger” total number of victims during an interim review carried out in October.

IN SHORT

The factory and prosecutor's office management announced that during the night of Saturday to Sunday, a total of 52 vehicles were damaged by fire after an intrusion on the Stellantis site in Sochaux (Doubs).

Unions want to attack the guaranteed minimum income, the signing of an unprecedented agreement in France between VTC drivers and platforms on the establishment of a minimum rate per trip, a long-standing demand of drivers but difficult to implement.

American media announced Sunday that David Jolicoeur, a member of the hip hop trio De La Soul, died at the age of 54. He is also known by his stage name “Trugoy the Dove.”

On the night of Sunday to Monday, the teams of Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier announced that they decided to turn back after a failure less than 24 hours after starting the Jules Verne Trophy at the helm of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild trimaran.