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The strengths of the day
MUSIQUE: One week before the opening of the festivities of the 69th Eurovision of the song (ESC) in Basel, the Rhine City welcomes the largest nightclub in the world for those over 60 on Saturday. For this record, she wants to bring together 1,400 people who have already bought their entry ticket. The event is organized in a club in the Basel Fair by the SSR and Pro Senectute. ESC takes place from May 10 to 17.
AUSTRALIA: The Australians vote on Saturday in the legislative elections after a campaign marked by the purchasing power, the environment and the American customs duties. Labor, in power for three years and led by Prime Minister Anthony Albenese, are given slightly favorite by the latest opinion surveys. The ballot should allow the 150 members of the lower chamber to elect about half of the Senate.
UNITED STATES: Texas voters are called upon to decide on a billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday to create a city around the industrial complex of its spacex spacex company in the south of the United States.
Just under 300 people, mostly SpaceX employees, can vote to transform the Starbase complex, a 4 km2 coastal land located on the border with Mexico, in a full -fledged city. The site is located in a wetland, bordered by the Rio Grande River and natural areas.
CYCLING: The cyclists of the Tour de Romandie will rub the mountains on Saturday afternoon during the 4th stage of 127 kilometers, which will lead them from Sion to Thyon 2000 (VS). This will be an opportunity for candidates for the final victory to put themselves in good position before the final time trial on Sunday in Geneva.
Today is …: Like every May 3, today is World Press Freedom Day. With the changes made by the use and development of artificial intelligence systems (AI), the fundamental values of a free, independent and pluralist press, remain more crucial than ever. All information on the UN website:
https://www.un.org/fr/observances/press-freedom-day
Seen in the press
MEDICINE: The French -speaking cantons pronounced at least 21 prohibitions to practice medicine between 2020 and 2024, reveals a 24 -hour investigation on Saturday and the Genève gallery. Five of the decisions relate to two people: a dentist was prohibited from practicing in two cantons and a surgeon in three cantons (Vaud, Geneva and Friborg).
Seventeen practitioners, sixteen men and a woman, are therefore concerned. A third of these doctors are psychiatrists, nine of Swiss nationality and other foreigners, mainly French. The reasons for the prohibitions of practicing are not known, because the cantons give no details.
Parties: The president of women of the Christina Bachmann-Roth center says she is satisfied on Saturday in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of a single male candidacy for the President of the Party, namely that of the Valais National Councilor Philipp Matthias Bregy.
“If the best choice is a man, I absolutely do not see that as a problem.” According to her, it is not enough to speak of female candidates; Women “must also want to”. But she admits, “it is a fact that women have to prove themselves in the bourgeois parties than in the left parties”.
-For the presidency of the federal parliamentary group, a position currently occupied by Mr. Bregy, she wants a woman to be elected. She believes that she is good at being.
Bad weather: Despite prohibitions to use paths following bad weather two weeks ago in Valais, many walkers do not respect them, reports the Blick on Saturday. “Death lurks on closed hiking trails,” warns in the Ferdinand Pfammatter newspaper, forest railings with the BLS railway company.
In addition, hikers hinder cleaning work, he adds. According to Herbert Werlen, who heads the southern sector sorting, the damage cannot yet be quantified, but could rise to tens of millions of francs.
GERONTOLOGY: The oldest person in Switzerland is Vaudoise, reports the 24 -hour newspaper on Saturday. It is Francine Grandjean, who celebrated her 110th anniversary on January 4 in the Agapê medico-social establishment from the Orient to the Valley of Joux (VD), adds the newspaper, citing Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
This former Nyonnaise seamstress has been the dean of the country for two months, following the death of Anna Furrer-Mlin on February 23 in the canton of Uri, at the age of 111 years and 245 days.
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Birthdays and jubilees
– 25 years ago (2000): The geocaching game was launched in Portland.
– 25 years ago (2000): death of the Valais Jesuit Henry Volken. He primarily took care of economic and social development, before being appointed secretary of the company for social issues. He was born in 1925.
– 30 years ago (1995): The Federal Council agrees to the abolition of television, a deficit service of PTTs which made it possible to broadcast radio programs by the telephone network. The decision will be effective in late 1997.
– 50 years ago (1975): Birth of American actress Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”).
– 80 years ago (1945): British aviation flows three German ships, the Cap Arrona liner, the Cargo Thielbek and Deutschland, in the Bay of Neustadt in the Baltic Sea. Thousands of deportees transferred from the Neuengamme concentration camp were on board. It is estimated that 7,000 prisoners and 380 crew members lost their lives.
Dicton of the day
“When it rains on May 3, noise in walnut”.
