Let’s take a look at the news:
• The government has announced that it wants to increase tax audits by 25% of the “biggest assets” by the end of the five-year term and control “every two years” the hundred largest market capitalizations, according to a new plan to fight against tax evasion.
• #UKRAINE Russia celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany today, an annual patriotic high mass with its military parade, but which this year, due to serial failures in Ukraine and attacks on Russian territory, takes place under high security. Vladimir Putin, who is expected with a speech in front of thousands of soldiers standing at attention in Red Square, is isolated, hated by Westerners and targeted by an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.
• #GAZA Twelve people, including three leaders of Islamic Jihad, but also children, according to local authorities, were killed before dawn in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army announced for its part that it had carried out targeted operations against three commanders of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of this Palestinian Islamist movement that Israel considers “terrorist”.
• China claims that Canada “sabotaged” their bilateral relations by expelling a Chinese diplomat whom Ottawa accuses of having sought to intimidate an elected Canadian critic of Beijing. “China will take firm countermeasures and all consequences thereof will be borne by Canada”the Chinese Embassy in Canada said yesterday.