United States: Milton caused at least seventeen deaths and $50 billion in damage. US President Joe Biden assessed Friday the amount of damage caused by the passage of <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2024/10/live-video-of-hurricane-miltons-arrival-in-florida/" title="Live video of Hurricane Milton's arrival in Florida“>Hurricane Milton in Florida to “around $50 billion” (45 billion euros), reports USA Today. “I want everyone who lives in the affected areas to know that we will do everything in our power” to help them “picking up the pieces”Mr. Biden told the press from the White House. The Category 3 hurricane, which made landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday, “at least seventeen dead” and sown “destruction across the state”causing flooding and power outages. Two million people were still without electricity Friday evening.
Sexual assault: forty new accusations against Mohamed Al-Fayed. The London police received “forty new accusations” targeting Mohamed Al-Fayed, the former owner of the Harrods department store, who died in August 2023, reports the BBC. Tongues continue to loosen since the broadcast by BBCon September 19, of a documentary lifting the veil on the rapes and sexual assaults allegedly committed by the Egyptian billionaire, notably when he was at the head of Harrods, between 1985 and 2010. After the broadcast of the documentary, “the police had urged anyone who had not yet filed a complaint to come and do so”specifies BBC. The new complaints also concern rape and sexual assault, and bring to at least two hundred the number of women – some of them minors at the time of the events – accusing Al-Fayed of sexual violence.
Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs. The Boeing group, in great financial difficulty, “will cut 10% of its workforce, or around 17,000 jobs”, writes it Wall Street Journal. The American aircraft manufacturer also announced on Friday “that it would further postpone the launch of its new plane, the 777X, which is already years behind schedule” and that he was going “stop production of the 767 cargo plane”specifies the economic daily. Staff reductions will affect all categories – management, management, employees –, the group underlined. Boeing is going through a difficult time, between its production quality problems, its space setbacks and the strike of 33,000 machinists since mid-September.
