Iranian threats: The United States moves personnel to the Middle East

The United States announced on Wednesday that it had moved some of its personnel to the Middle East after Tehran threatened to hit their military bases in the event of a conflict following the failure of negotiations between the two countries on Iranian nuclear power.

The United States has numerous military bases in the vicinity of Iran, the most important being located in Qatar.

Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday evening that American personnel were moving to the region “because it could be a dangerous place” in the coming days.

Earlier, American officials indicated that the United States was reducing the staff at its embassy in Iraq for security reasons.

Boat to Gaza: Rima Hassan and other French activists detained in Israel to be deported

The four French pro-Palestinian activists still detained in Israel, including LFI MEP Rima Hassan - who was briefly placed in solitary confinement, according to an NGO - will be deported on Thursday and Friday, French diplomacy announced.

The return to France of Rima Hassan and another French national is scheduled to return to France on Thursday evening at Roissy-Charles-De-Gaulle, airport where two other activists who were sailing on the boat will arrive Friday evening, airport sources told AFP.

Killed for his bitcoins: the defendants tell each other the horror of the crime

The three men prosecuted for the barbaric murder of a student in order to steal his bitcoins multiplied the contradictory versions during their trial in Vesoul, where the pleadings start on Thursday.

Who stabbed Simon Arthuis, a 19-year-old computer student who was found dead in a pond in Plancher-Bas (Haute-Saône) in August 2021?

On the seventh day of the hearing, Mickaël Calabrese, 36, admitted Wednesday to having ordered the crime. His motive: to recover the 200,000 euros in cryptocurrencies collected by the victim, with whom he was a couple.

IN A NUTSHELL

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by Washington and Israel but criticized by NGOs, said that at least five of its Palestinian employees were killed and several others injured on Wednesday in a Hamas attack.

The notoriously climate-sceptical government of Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that it wanted to reverse environmental measures taken by the previous American administration to reduce polluting emissions from power plants, especially gas and coal.

Deputies voted Wednesday evening in the Law Committee to repeal, as of 2030, territorialized visas in Mayotte that prevent holders of a Mahorais residence permit from coming to France.

The Banque de France has lowered its growth forecast for France in 2025 for the second time this year, to 0.6% from 0.7% in March, due to the rise in American tariffs in a very uncertain climate.

Canadian Summer McIntosh broke a new world record on Wednesday, her third in five days, by swimming the 400m medley in 4 min 23 sec 65 at the National Championships in Victoria.