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The powerful general Qassem Soleimani killed by the United States in Baghdad
Powerful General Qassem Soleimani was killed early this Friday in an American raid on Baghdad. Immediately after the death of Iranian General Soleimani, in charge of Iraqi affairs in the ideological army of the Islamic Republic, the Pentagon announced that US President Donald Trump had given orders to "kill" Soleimani. The US raid on a convoy of vehicles inside Baghdad airport killed at least nine people, according to Iraqi security officials.
The attack came three days after the unprecedented attack on the U.S. embassy. the rocket against its diplomats and soldiers that has been going on for weeks. Attacks attributed by Washington to pro-Iran in Iraq, but never claimed. Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, real operational chief of the Hachd and lieutenant of general Soleimani for Iraq for decades, was also killed in the American raid. To find out more, it's here.
Two Air France unions on strike next week
The air could also be blocked next week. The Spaf, pilots 'union, and the SNGAF, hostesses and stewards' union, call on Air France cabin crew to strike for several days at the start of the school year against the pension reform, we learned this Thursday from these organizations. Listed pilots, "Spaf calls a strike Monday and Tuesday," said Grégoire Aplincourt, president of this organization, the second union representing pilots at Air France. Second representative union for Air France flight attendants and stewards, SNGAF calls on flight crews to go "on strike" from Monday to Thursday, he announced in a press release, where he also launched a call to demonstrate "in the streets" and to "come down from the clouds". All the details there .
Carlos Ghosn case: "It was I alone who organized my departure" from Japan to Lebanon
The ex-Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who fled Japan, where he is being prosecuted for financial embezzlement, for Lebanon, claimed to have organized his departure "alone", he said in a press release sent to the media, including 20 Minutes . "The allegations in the media that my wife Carole and other members of my family played a role in my departure from Japan are false and untrue. It was I alone who organized my departure. My family played no role, ”explains the ex-boss of Renault-Nissan.
This Friday, the images of the video surveillance revealed that Carlos Ghosn had left alone last Sunday his residence in Tokyo. Captured on Sunday around noon, these are the last images of the former boss of Renault and Nissan to have been captured by a camera placed near the entrance to his home to monitor his entries and exits, according to the NHK chain. The video did not reveal a suspicious presence by his side at the time. Japanese police suspect that he then joined someone else to fly, also according to Japanese television.
Carlos Ghosn arrived in Lebanon on Monday, a country of which he is a national, but his place of residence remains unknown.
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