Keystone-ATS gives you a first overview of the news, with the primeurs found in the press. Without forgetting the birthdays and the saying of the day!
GENEVA: The Geneva harbor will vibrate on Saturday afternoon to the rhythm of the Lake Parade. For this 23rd edition, the procession of eleven musical tanks, ranging from Deep-House to techno without forgetting tropical sounds, will rally Baby-Plage to the Wilson quay on the right bank. The passage on the Mont-Blanc bridge is scheduled around 5.30 p.m. The organizers thus reversed the traditional course due to the fan zone of the Women’s Football Euro which occupies space on the left bank.
Taiwan: The Taiwanese decides on Saturday on a referendum which makes it possible to revoke elected officials before the end of their mandate. Supporters of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) of the Taiwanese president Lai Ching-Té, hated by Beijing, seek to remove 31 elected officials from Kuomintang (KMT), the majority opposition formation in Parliament, which they accuse of being pro-china and of constituting a threat to the national security of the island. About twenty KMT deputies could lose their headquarters on Saturday and seven others faced another vote in dismissal on August 23.
FOOTBALL: The first day of the Football Super League continues on Saturday evening with the first shock of the season, which will see the Young Boys de Bern to Genevois at the Servette FC at 8:30 p.m. in the Federal capital compete. The Basel reigning champion will move to Saint-Gall (6:00 p.m.) while Grasshopper Zurich will receive Lucerne at the same time.
Valais: The Valais taxman has not yet finished with the hue Dominique Giroud, accused of wine fraud, reveals the Nouvelliste on Saturday. After having obtained a tax recovery and fines of more than 20 million francs for the period 2003 to 2009, the cantonal service of contributions attempted to recover taxes for the years 2011 to 2014. But the Valais Enjoyment obtained a partial victory in May before the Court of Tax Law, because the taxman did not manage to justify his calculation, which allowed Mr. Giroud to avoid maximum taxation. But the case could bounce back, because the chill has since requested the cancellation of the automatic taxes of his company Giroud Vins SA for the years 2010 to 2014. The Giroud affair gave rise to dozens of procedures relating to criminal, administrative or civil law in several cantons.
Air transport: Thomas Steffen, pilot of the airline Swiss and security manager in the Aeropers pilot union, warns on Tages-Anzeiger, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung and the Bund against the overload of international air traffic on Saturday. The sharp increase in theft leads to stress and communication problems, he adds. “If I want to get in touch with air traffic control as an American airport approaches, I can’t sometimes go, because the radio frequency is saturated,” he said. “Often, an air controller and another plane emit at the same time, so that we do not understand and that we must repeat the instructions.”
Birthdays and jubilees
– 5 years ago (2020): Death of the Anglo-American actress Olivia de Havilland, sister of Joan Fontaine, at the age of 104. She had received two Oscars from the best actress for her roles in “To each her destiny” (1946) and “The heiress” (1949).
– 10 years ago (2015): Death of Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of singer Whitney Houston. The young woman spent almost six months in a coma after being found unconscious in a bathtub. She was born in 1993.
– 40 years ago (1985): Birth of the French actor Arthur Dupont (“Bus Palladium”, “The Outsider”, “The little murders of Agatha Christie”).
– 60 years ago (1965): The Maldives obtain their independence from the United Kingdom and become members of the Commonwealth.
– 80 years ago (1945): Birth of British actress Helen Mirren (“The Queen”, “Excalibur”, “Elizabeth I”).
– 150 years ago (1875): Birth of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jug, founder of analytical psychology. He died in 1961.
– 220 years ago (1805): An earthquake strikes the center of Italy, from Naples to Campobasso, killing about 26,000 people.
“From Sainte-Anne to Saint-Laurent plant raves at all times”.
