Transport des malades: les taxis prévoient une forte mobilisation le 11 juin

Les taxis, mécontents de la tournure des négociations avec le gouvernement concernant le transport des patients, prévoient une forte mobilisation mercredi 11 juin, jour d’une réunion cruciale au ministère de la Santé, a annoncé vendredi la Fédération nationale des taxis (FNDT).Le gouvernement estime que “sa théorie (sur la réforme) fonctionne” et que “les taxis sont sauvés”, a raillé Dominique Buisson, secrétaire de la FNDT.D’après lui, la promesse du Premier ministre François Bayrou de retravailler le projet de convention encadrant la rémunération du transport des malades n’a pas été tenue.La FNDT prévoit donc d’appeler les taxis à une manifestation devant le ministère de l’Economie et des Finances mercredi prochain, accompagnée d’un blocage des aéroports parisiens (Orly et Roissy-Charles de Gaulle) “et peut-être même en province”, selon M. Buisson.”On attend de savoir s’il peut y avoir des avancées”, a-t-il ajouté mais en l’état, “on est partis sur un rapport de force pour que ce soit un blocage du pays”.Le nouveau système prévoit une prise en charge de 13 euros par l’Assurance maladie, puis un tarif kilométrique. Il est conçu pour dissuader les retours à vide ou les temps d’attente trop longs.Cette tarification doit entrer en vigueur le 1er octobre. L’objectif est de limiter la croissance des dépenses de transport sanitaire. Celles-ci ont atteint 6,74 milliards d’euros en 2024, dont 3,07 milliards pour les taxis conventionnés, soit un bond de 45% depuis 2019.Le mouvement de colère des taxis a provoqué de nombreuses perturbations fin mai, avant un retour au calme cette semaine le temps de la tenue de plusieurs réunions aux ministères des Transports et de la Santé. 

Bac 2025: le plus jeune candidat inscrit a huit ans, nouveau record selon l’Education nationale

Le plus jeune candidat au baccalauréat général et technologique 2025 a huit ans, un nouveau record dans l’histoire de cet examen de fin de scolarité, a annoncé vendredi le ministère de l’Education nationale. Cet élève, en âge d’être scolarisé en CE1 ou CE2, est inscrit en candidat individuel (candidat libre) à la session du baccalauréat, qui démarre le 16 juin avec l’épreuve de philosophie, a précisé le ministère en marge d’un point presse sur la présentation du bac. Le ministère de l’Education nationale n’a pas souhaité dévoiler davantage d’informations sur l’identité de ce candidat ou de cette candidate. L’an dernier, la plus jeune candidate, élève de l’académie de Strasbourg, avait neuf ans, un précédent record pour le bac. En 2023, le candidat le plus jeune était âgé de 12 ans (bac général et technologique, dans l’académie de Versailles).”Ce sont vraiment des cas très particuliers. À chaque fois, c’est un élève sur l’ensemble d’une cohorte, donc ça fait figure d’exception”, a précisé Caroline Pascal, directrice générale de l’enseignement scolaire (Dgesco) lors de ce point presse.Pour cette édition 2025 du bac, qui réunit 724.633 candidats, le postulant inscrit le plus âgé a de son côté 78 ans (bac général et technologique), a précisé le ministère.Le bac a été institué par un décret du 17 mars 1808 et sa première édition, sous forme d’épreuves uniquement à l’oral, s’est déroulée en 1809. 

US job market cools but resilient for now despite Trump tariffs

US hiring eased in May but remained resilient, government data showed Friday, in a gradual slowdown amid business uncertainty while scrutiny intensifies over the effects of President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs.Hiring in the world’s largest economy came in at 139,000 last month, down from a revised 147,000 figure in April, said the Labor Department.The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.2 percent, while pay gains exceeded expectations at 0.4 percent.The figures indicate that the employment market remains healthy despite jolts to financial markets, supply chains and consumer sentiment this year as Trump announced successive waves of tariffs.Trump touted the “great job numbers” on his Truth Social platform.But there appears to be softening. Taken together, job growth in March and April was revised lower by 95,000, Friday’s report said.Shortly after its publication, Trump urged Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to go for a “full point” rate cut, calling Fed chief “a disaster” and again applying political pressure on the independent central bank.But Fed officials are taking a cautious approach as they monitor the tariffs’ impact on inflation.Trump has imposed a 10 percent levy on most trading partners and unveiled higher rates for dozens of economies, but experts say their effects take time to filter through.This is partly because of the president’s on-again, off-again approach to the trade war.His higher blanket tariff rates, although announced in April, were swiftly halted until early July, allowing room for negotiations.Trump’s tit-for-tat escalation with China brought both sides’ levies on each other’s products to triple digits too in April, a level effectively acting as a trade embargo.But the countries reached a deal to temporarily lower duties in May.- ‘Tough summer’ -For now, economists are keeping tabs on signals that US employers might be pulling back on hiring.”This is an ‘abundance of caution economy’ where businesses are only filling critical positions and job seekers, especially recent graduates, are struggling to find employment,” said Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union.She noted that nearly half the job gains were in health care, while the federal government continues to lose workers. Federal government employment was down by 59,000 since January.”A recession does not look imminent, but it will be a tough summer for anyone looking for full-time work,” Long said in a note.Economist Samuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics said the labor market was “cracking, but not crumbling yet.”While the market is slowing, the pace of cooling remains too gradual for the Fed to reduce interest rates at upcoming meetings. Officials have been awaiting more clarity on how much Trump’s new tariffs might lift inflation.Tombs warned that revisions to May’s employment data could “reveal a sharper slowdown.”On Wednesday, data from payroll firm ADP showed that private sector employment cooled to 37,000 in May, down from 60,000 in the prior month and marking its slowest rate since 2023.Initial jobless claims picked up in the week ending May 31, with economists warning that this could be a sign of a weakening labor market in response to Trump’s tariffs and the resulting uncertainty.Anecdotal data such as the Fed’s beige book survey of economic conditions and recent surveys of businesses have also indicated the levies are causing many firms to pause investment and hiring.All these mean that such effects could soon show up in government employment numbers.”Certainly, employment growth is going to slow down over the next few months,” said Dan North, senior economist at Allianz Trade North America.”We just haven’t seen the full effect of the tariffs, and we probably won’t for a few more months, especially given that they’re so choppy, on and off,” North told AFP.

‘No Eid’ for West Bank Palestinians who lost sons in Israeli raids

Abeer Ghazzawi had little time to visit her two sons’ graves for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha before Israeli soldiers cleared the cemetery near the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.The Israeli army has conducted a months-long operation in the camp which has forced Ghazzawi, along with thousands of other residents, from her home.For Ghazzawi, the few precious minutes she spent at her sons’ graves still felt like a small victory.”On the last Eid (Eid al-Fitr, celebrating the end of Ramadan in March), they raided us. They even shot at us. But this Eid, there was no shooting, just that they kicked us out of the cemetery twice”, the 48-year-old told AFP.”We were able to visit our land, clean up around the graves, and pour rosewater and cologne on them”, she added.Eid al-Adha, which begins on Friday, is one of the biggest holidays in the Muslim calendar.According to Muslim tradition, it commemorates the sacrifice Ibrahim (known to Christians and Jews as Abraham) was about to make by killing his son, before the angel Gabriel intervened and offered him a sheep to sacrifice instead.As part of the celebrations, families traditionally visit the graves of their loved ones.In the Jenin camp cemetery, women and men had brought flowers for their deceased relatives, and many sat on the side of their loved ones’ graves as they remembered the dead, clearing away weeds and dust.An armoured car arrived at the site shortly after, unloading soldiers to clear the cemetery of its mourners who walked away solemnly without protest.Ghazzawi’s two sons, Mohammad and Basel, were killed in January 2024 in a Jenin hospital by undercover Israeli troops.The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group claimed the two brothers as its fighters after their deaths.Like Ghazzawi, many in Jenin mourned sons killed during one of the numerous Israeli operations that have targeted the city, a known bastion of Palestinian armed groups fighting Israel.-‘There is no Eid’-In the current months-long military operation in the north of the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, Israeli forces looking for militants have cleared three refugee camps and deployed tanks in Jenin.Mohammad Abu Hjab, 51, went to the cemetery on the other side of the city to visit the grave of his son, killed in January by an Israeli strike that also killed five other people.”There is no Eid. I lost my son — how can it be Eid for me?” he asked as he stood by the six small gravestones of the dead young men.The Israeli military did not offer details at the time but said it had carried out “an attack in the Jenin area”. “There’s no accountability, no oversight”, lamented Abu Hjab.”One of the victims (of the strike) was just a kid, born in 2008 -— so he was only 16 years old.””I still have three other children. I live 24 hours a day with no peace of mind”, he added, referring to the army’s continued presence in Jenin.All around him, families sat or stood around graves at Jenin’s eastern neighbourhood cemetery, which they visited after the early morning Eid prayer at the city’s nearby Great Mosque.The mosque’s imam led a prayer at the cemetery for those killed in Gaza and for the community’s dead, particularly those killed by the Israeli army.Hamam al-Sadi, 31, told AFP he has visited the cemetery at every religious holiday since his brother was killed in a strike, to “just sit with him.”-‘Our only hope’- Several graves marked “martyr” — a term broadly applied to Palestinian civilians and militants killed by Israel — were decorated with photos of young men holding weapons.Mohammad Hazhouzi, 61, lost a son during a military raid in November 2024.He has also been unemployed since Israel stopped giving work permits to West Bank residents after the Gaza war erupted.Despite the army’s continued presence in Jenin, Hazhouzi harboured hope.”They’ve been there for months. But every occupation eventually comes to an end, no matter how long it lasts”.”God willing, we will achieve our goal of establishing our Palestinian state. That’s our only hope,” he said. “Be optimistic, and good things will come”.

Bangladesh’s Yunus announces elections in April 2026

Bangladesh will hold elections in early April 2026 for the first time since a mass uprising overthrew the government last year, interim leader Muhammad Yunus said Friday.The South Asian nation of around 170 million people has been in political turmoil since former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by a student-led revolt in August 2024, ending her iron-fisted rule of 15 years.”I am announcing to the citizens of the country that the election will be held on any day in the first half of April 2026,” said Yunus, the 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner who leads the caretaker government.Political parties jostling for power have been repeatedly demanding Yunus fix an election timetable, while he has said time is needed as the country requires an overhaul of its democratic institutions after Hasina’s tenure.”The government has been doing everything necessary to create an environment conducive to holding the election,” he added in the television broadcast, while repeating his warning that reforms were needed.”It should be remembered that Bangladesh has plunged into deep crisis every time it has held a flawed election,” he said, in a speech given on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday in the Muslim-majority nation.”A political party usurped power through such elections in the past, and became a barbaric fascist force.”Hasina’s rule saw widespread human rights abuses, and her government was accused of politicising courts and the civil service, as well as staging lopsided elections.The interim government had already repeatedly vowed to hold elections before June 2026, but said the more time it had to enact reforms, the better.- Reform of ‘utmost importance’ -The key Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), seen as the election frontrunner, has in recent weeks been pushing hard for polls to be held by December.Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman, in a speech to officers in May, also said that elections should be held by December, according to both Bangladeshi media and military sources.Days after that speech, the government warned that political power struggles risked jeopardising gains that have been made.”Those who organise such elections are later viewed as culprits, and those who assume office through them become targets of public hatred,” Yunus said on Friday.”One of the biggest responsibilities of this government is to ensure a transparent… and widely participatory election so that the country does not fall into a new phase of crisis,” he added. “That is why institutional reform is of utmost importance.”Up to 1,400 people were killed between July and August 2024 after Hasina’s government launched a crackdown in a bid to cling to power, according to the United Nations.Hasina, 77, fled by helicopter to her old ally India and she has defied an extradition order to return to Dhaka.Her trial opened in absentia this month.Yunus said “reforms, trials, and elections” were the three “core mandates” of his government. “The sacrifices made by our students and people will be in vain if good governance cannot be established,” he said. The Election Commission will “present a detailed roadmap” for the vote “at an appropriate time”, the interim leader said without specifying a date.”We have been in dialogue with all stakeholders to organise the most free, fair, competitive, and credible election in the history of Bangladesh,” Yunus added.

France opens ‘complicity in genocide’ probes over blocked Gaza aid

French anti-terror prosecutors have opened probes into “complicity in genocide” and “incitement to genocide” after French-Israelis allegedly blocked aid intended for war-torn Gaza last year, they said on Friday.The two investigations, opened after legal complaints, were also to look into possible “complicity in crimes against humanity” between January and May 2024, the anti-terror prosecutor’s office (PNAT) said. They are the first known probes in France to be looking into alleged violations of international law in Gaza, several sources with knowledge of the cases told AFP.In a separate case made public on the same day, the grandmother of two children with French nationality who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza has filed a legal complaint in Paris, accusing Israel of “genocide” and “murder”, her lawyer said.The French judiciary has jurisdiction when French citizens are involved in such cases.Rights groups, lawyers and some Israeli historians have described the Gaza war as “genocide”.Israel, created in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust of Jews during World War II, vehemently rejects the accusation.The French probes were opened after two separate legal complaints.In the first, the Jewish French Union for Peace (UFJP) and a French-Palestinian victim filed a complaint in November targeting alleged French members of hardline pro-Israel groups “Israel is forever” and “Tzav-9”.It accused them of “physically” preventing the passage of trucks at border checkpoints controlled by the Israeli army.Lawyers for the plaintiffs, Damia Taharraoui and Marion Lafouge, told AFP they were happy a probe had been launched into the events in January 2024 — “a time when no-one wanted to hear anything about genocide”.A source close to the case said prosecutors last month urged the investigation in relation to events at the Nitzana crossing point between Egypt and Israel, and the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel into Gaza. Around that time, hardline Israeli protesters — including friends and relatives of hostages held in Gaza — blocked aid lorries from entering the occupied Palestinian territory and forced them to turn back at Kerem Shalom.A second complaint from a group called the Lawyers for Justice in the Middle East (CAPJO) accused members of “Israel is forever” of having blocked aid trucks.It used photos, videos and public statements to back up its complaint.- ‘Genocide’ complaint -No court has so far concluded that the ongoing conflict is a genocide.But in rulings in January, March and May 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest judicial organ, told Israel to do everything possible to “prevent” acts of genocide during its military operations in Gaza, including through allowing in urgently needed aid.In the separate case, Jacqueline Rivault, the grandmother of six- and nine-year-old children killed in an Israeli strike, filed her complaint accusing Israel of “genocide” and “murder” with the crimes against humanity section of the Court of Paris, lawyer Arie Alimi said.Though formally against unnamed parties, the complaint explicitly targets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli government and the military.The complaint states that an Israeli missile strike killed Janna, six, and Abderrahim Abudaher, nine, in northern Gaza on October 24, 2023.”We believe these children are dead as part of a deliberate organised policy targeting the whole of Gaza’s population with a possible genocidal intent,” Alimi said.The children’s brother Omar, now five, was severely wounded but still lives in Gaza with their mother, identified as Yasmine Z., the complaint said.A French court in 2019 convicted Yasmine Z. in absentia of having funded a “terrorist” group over giving money in Gaza to members of Palestinian militant groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.- Famine warnings -Israel said last month it was easing the complete blockade of Gaza it imposed on March 2 but on May 30 the United Nations said the territory’s entire population of more than two million people remained at risk of famine.A US-backed aid group last week began distributions but reports that the Israeli military shot dead dozens of Palestinians trying to collect food has sparked widespread condemnation. The UN and major aid organisations have refused to cooperate with the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, citing concerns that it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.Hamas fighters launched an attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. A total of 1,218 people died, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.The militants abducted 251 hostages, 55 of whom remain in Gaza, including 32 the Israeli military says are dead.Israel’s retaliatory war on Hamas-run Gaza has killed 54,677 people, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry there, figures the United Nations deems reliable.The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.It also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif over similar allegations linked to the October 7 attack but the case against him was dropped in February after confirmation Israel had killed him.

Wall Street avance, portée par les créations d’emplois aux Etats-Unis

La Bourse de New York évolue dans le vert vendredi, se montrant rassurée par des créations d’emplois aux États-Unis supérieures aux attentes en mai, bien qu’en baisse, et un taux de chômage toujours faible.Vers 13H50 GMT, le Dow Jones gagnait 1,30%, l’indice Nasdaq avançait de 1,43% et l’indice élargi S&P 500 prenait 1,25%.”Le marché apprécie ce qu’il voit dans la situation de l’emploi en mai”, résume dans une note Patrick O’Hare, de Briefing.com.La première économie mondiale a créé 139.000 emplois le mois dernier, moins qu’en avril (147.000, chiffre nettement révisé à la baisse), mais plus que ce qui était envisagé par les acteurs de la finance (autour de 125.000, selon le consensus publié par MarketWatch).Le taux de chômage est quant à lui resté stable à 4,2%, proche du plein-emploi, selon les données du ministère américain du Travail publiées avant l’ouverture de Wall Street.”Les chiffres d’aujourd’hui apaisent certaines inquiétudes concernant le ralentissement de la croissance, à la fois sur le marché du travail et, de manière plus générale, sur la croissance économique”, estime auprès de l’AFP Angelo Kourkafas, d’Edward Jones.Selon M. Kourkafas, “l’économie se porte bien, il n’y a pas d’urgence de la part de la Fed à agir (et) il est probable qu’elle maintienne son approche attentiste” et ne procède pas à de baisses de taux pendant l’été.Ainsi, sur le marché obligataire, le rendement des emprunts d’État américains à 10 ans se tendait nettement, à 4,47%, contre 4,39% la veille en clôture.”Nous n’avons pas encore vu tout l’impact des droits de douane. Et nous ne le verrons probablement pas avant plusieurs mois”, a toutefois prévenu à l’AFP, avant la publication, Dan North, économiste à Allianz Trade North America.Il estime que l’effet est d’autant moins linéaire que la politique douanière est “erratique”.Donald Trump et le président chinois Xi Jinping se sont entretenus par téléphone jeudi pendant plus d’une heure, ce dernier ayant assuré qu’ils se devaient de “redresser la trajectoire” des relations bilatérales, tendues par des différends commerciaux et diplomatiques.Les deux dirigeants se sont également mutuellement invités dans leurs pays respectifs.V vendredi, le conseiller de Donald Trump en charge des questions commerciales, Peter Navarro, a assuré, selon les médias américains, qu’une nouvelle rencontre entre les représentants chinois et américains devrait intervenir dans les sept prochains jours.Au tableau des valeurs, Tesla reprenait un peu son souffle (+5,20% à 299,19 dollars) après sa lourde chute de la veille provoquée par l’affrontement entre son patron Elon Musk et Donald Trump.Le géant des semiconducteurs Broadcom reculait (-2,44% à 253,57 dollars) malgré des résultats supérieurs aux attentes pour le deuxième trimestre de son exercice décalé, dont un chiffre d’affaires en hausse de 50% par rapport à l’année précédente. Circle, créateur de la cryptomonnaie USDC, continuait sa forte progression (+14,23% à 94,63 dollars) à l’occasion de son deuxième jour de cotation. La valeur de ses actions a pratiquement triplé par rapport au prix initial fixé pour son introduction en Bourse.L’équipementier sportif Lululemon Athletica plongeait de 18,27% à 270,36 dollars après avoir déçu les attentes quant à ses prévisions pour le trimestre en cours et l’année entière. L’entreprise anticipe un bénéfice net par action, donnée de référence pour les marchés, compris entre 2,85 et 2,90 dollars sur le trimestre compte 3,29 dollars attendu par les analystes.La société spécialisée dans la signature électronique de document DocuSign dévissait de 17,25% à 76,88 dollars malgré des résultats supérieurs aux attentes.