The action at the Cannes Film Festival lasted only a few seconds: a woman, painted in the national colors of Ukraine, stormed the red carpet on Friday evening, shirtless and wearing blood-red underpants, and yelled in English: “Stop raping us!” The member of the radical feminist collective “Scum” wanted to draw attention to the sexualised violence of the Russian armed forces once morest women in Ukraine. Human rights organizations are saying that the Russian army is using rape as a weapon of war in Ukraine.
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May 22, 2022
A thirteen-year-old girl secretly took the car keys from her parents. At a speed of 120 km/h, trouble lay in wait for her and her friends – Society – Saint-Petersburg News
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Ural teenagers received head injuries while hiding from the police in a car taken from their parents without permission. how informs On the evening of May 22, Interfax, citing the traffic police department for the Sverdlovsk region, three minors crashed into a pole at high speed while trying to get away from the chase.
“The 16-year-old driver of a VAZ-210740 car was moving (…) at a speed of regarding 120 km/h. When driving through an intersection, he lost control and ran into a reinforced concrete electrical pole. In addition to the driver, there were two minor passengers in the car – a 13-year-old girl sitting in the front passenger seat and a 17-year-old teenager who was sitting in the back seat.
According to the regional traffic police, the driver and his passenger were injured in the accident. Both were taken to the hospital with closed craniocerebral injuries and multiple bruises, the girl was hospitalized.
At the same time, the police previously established that the girl secretly took the car keys from her parents in order to ride at night with friends. A 16-year-old friend sat behind the wheel. The company was skating in the Krasnogorsk region, fell into the field of view of traffic police inspectors and tried to hide from them.
It was also established that the teenagers had previously repeatedly committed various offenses, were registered with the juvenile department, and the guy driver returned from a colony a month ago, where he was serving a sentence for theft and carjacking.
With regard to the parents of juvenile delinquents, as well as a teenager who was driving, administrative protocols were drawn up.
A “wealth shock” hits the Americans… the world’s largest economy in a difficult challenge
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The world’s richest country appears to be shrinking, following a boom period in which Americans’ collective net wealth has risen at an impressive rate over the past two years, even as families and businesses grapple with the scourge of COVID-19.
American households accumulated an additional $38.5 trillion from early 2020 to the end of last year, taking their collective net wealth to a record $142 trillion, according to Federal Reserve estimates.
However, as the United States tries to live with the virus and restore spending back to pre-pandemic normal, it now faces a new threat: the decline in collective wealth since the beginning of 2022, which JP Morgan estimates to total at least $5 trillion, and might It will reach $9 trillion by the end of the year, according to Bloomberg.
So far, the brunt is borne by the richest Americans, as billionaire fortunes have fallen by nearly $800 billion since their peak, amid sharp losses in stocks, cryptocurrencies and other financial assets. High interest rates are also beginning to destabilize the housing market, with middle- and working-class families putting away the bulk of their wealth.
To eliminate the highest inflation in decades, the Fed needs to get Americans to rein in their spending, even if it takes an economic slowdown to get there.
Since the beginning of the year, the S&P 500 is down 18%, the Nasdaq 100 is down 27%, and the Bloomberg Crypto is down 48%.
All this amounts to a “wealth shock” that is set to derail growth next year, JPMorgan economists led by Michael Feroli wrote in a note on Friday.
It was billionaires The biggest winners of 2020 and 2021 are now losing more than just regarding anyone else, as the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily measure of the wealth of the world’s 500 richest people, has fallen by $1.6 trillion since its peak in November.
Americans lead the index, and have lost $797 billion since the peak. Perhaps the biggest loser was the richest person in the world, Elon Musk. He has lost $139.1 billion, or 41% of his fortune, since November, when his net worth briefly exceeded $340 billion. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – the second richest person in the world – lost $82.7 billion, or 39% of his peak wealth.
And while wealth losses among the richest Americans, who make up just 0.001%, reduce inequality, they are not an outlet for most of those concerned regarding widening inequality in the United States.
In Cannes, a “feminist” version of Don Juan, with Tahar Rahim
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Forget Don Juan by Molière or Tirso de Molina, make way for the 2022 version: presented Sunday evening in Cannes, “Don Juan” by Serge Bozon reinvents the inveterate heartthrob into a rejected lover, embodied by Tahar Rahim.
In the post-MeToo era, wouldn’t Don Juan be a bit “has been”? Not for the director Serge Bozon who completely transformed the character. In his version, a sort of musical comedy with singer Alain Chamfort, Don Juan is a left man, obsessed with his ex-girlfriend.
The film centers on the story of Laurent (Tahar Rahim; “Designated Guilty”, “The Serpent”), a theater actor, abandoned at the altar by Julie (Virginie Efira; “Benedetta”). The cause ? Arriving at the town hall, the ex-bride surprises him looking at a woman from the window. Feeling betrayed by this look, she leaves without saying a word.
From there, Laurent sees Julie everywhere and sinks into depression.
By making Don Juan a man left behind rather than a heartbreaker, Serge Bozon reverses the imagination attached to this emblematic character of literature.
“From this point of view, I think we can say that the film has a feminist aspect”, explains its director to AFP. Moreover, “this Don Juan is an anti-hero. He keeps getting upset and being thrown by women, even if in the end he only burns for one woman: Julie”.
The only particularity of the original Don Juan that Serge Bozon has retained: Laurent’s view of women. The latter cannot help looking at them, even staring at them.
Not quite a musical, several scenes sung by Tahar Rahim and Virginie Efira punctuate the film. “For me, the music prolongs the painful side of the characters”, specifies Serge Bozon.
Scenes that were a challenge for Virginie Efira and Tahar Rahim. “They were incredible”, greets the director, who says he got on very well with Tahar Rahim: “He is an actor who is not afraid of ridicule and that, for an actor, is something rather rare”.