L’ex-procureure générale de l’armée israélienne, Yifat Tomer-Yeroushalmi, a été arrêtée dans le cadre d’une affaire de fuite en 2024 d’une vidéo suggérant de graves sévices contre un détenu palestinien dans une prison de haute sécurité près de Gaza, pour lesquels cinq réservistes ont été inculpés. Cette affaire de violences présumées, y compris à caractère sexuel, qui …
Starbucks announced Monday it will sell a controlling stake in its Chinese retail operations to investment firm Boyu Capital in a deal valuing the business at around $4 billion.Under the agreement, Boyu will hold up to 60 percent of a new joint venture operating 8,000 Starbucks stores across China, while the Seattle-based company retains a 40 percent stake and continues to own the brand and intellectual property.The partnership marks a strategic shift for Starbucks after more than 26 years in China, combining the global coffee chain’s brand recognition with Boyu’s local market expertise to expand into smaller cities and new regions.China represents Starbucks’s second biggest market globally, though the company has faced increasing competition from local coffee chains like Luckin coffee that has won over customers with lower prices. Starbucks reported last week that its latest quarterly same-store sales in China increased by two percent, fueled by an increase in traffic, but added that average spending per ticket had dropped.The company said it expects the total value of its China retail business to exceed $13 billion, including proceeds from the sale, its retained interest, and future licensing fees over the next decade.”Boyu’s deep local knowledge and expertise will help accelerate our growth in China, especially as we expand into smaller cities and new regions,” said Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol.The companies said they aim to grow the store count to as many as 20,000 locations over time, with the business continuing to be headquartered in Shanghai.The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, pending regulatory approvals.
Diane Ladd, the Oscar-nominated “Wild at Heart” actress and mother of Laura Dern, died Monday. She was 89.In a career spanning eight decades, Ladd was nominated for the best supporting actress Academy Award three times: in Martin Scorsese’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart,” and “Rambling Rose.” The news of Ladd’s death was announced by Dern, Ladd’s Oscar-winning actress daughter from her first marriage to Bruce Dern.”My amazing hero and my profound gift of a mother passed with me beside her this morning at her home in Ojai, California,” Laura Dern wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.Born in Mississippi in 1935, Southern belle Ladd appeared in many television and stage shows before Scorsese gave her a breakout role as a sassy waitress in 1974’s “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”Lynch cast Ladd to play the murderous, vengeful mother of Dern’s Lula in his surreal, Cannes Palme d’Or-winning black comedy “Wild At Heart” in 1990.Ladd once again shared the screen with her daughter in the following year’s “Rambling Rose,” a period drama set in the Deep South during the Great Depression.Ladd’s other film credits included “Chinatown” and “Inland Empire.””She was the greatest daughter, mother, grandmother, actress, artist and empathetic spirit that only dreams could have seemingly created,” wrote Dern.”We were blessed to have her. She is flying with her angels now.”No cause of death was provided.
