Michael Jackson bat des records de vente d’albums depuis sa mort brutale le 25 juin dernier. Bambi est de retour au sommet des hit-parades américains. Le roi de la pop s’adjuge 9 des 10 premières places de la liste des meilleures ventes du magazine spécialisé Billboard, après son décès soudain jeudi dernier à l’âge de 50 ans.

Depuis son décès brutal, il y a quelques jours à l’âge de 50 ans, les ventes d’albums de la star ont atteint des sommets. Dans sa liste publiée récemment, Billboard (le magazine américain de référence, dédié à l’industrie du disque) indique que la compilation Number Ones (sortie le 18 novembre 2003 ) arrive en tête des ventes avec 108 000 exemplaires vendus la semaine dernière.

Suivent The Essential Michael Jackson et Thriller dont les ventes atteignent respectivement 102 000 et 101 000 exemplaires en une semaine, celle qui a suivi la mort de Michael Jackson.

La semaine précédent le décès de Jackson, seul Number Ones faisait partie de la liste des meilleures ventes, mais au 20e rang seulement avec 4 000 exemplaires vendus au cours de cette semaine-là, selon Billboard.com.
Au total, 415 000 exemplaires des albums solos de la star décédée ont été achetés la semaine dernière contre seulement 10 000 exemplaires la première semaine de juin.

La ruée des fans de Michael Jackson ces derniers jours représente quasiment le double du nombre d’albums qui ont été vendus du 1er janvier au 21 juin (297 000 exemplaires), quatre jours avant que l’interprète de Bad ne décède.

Les téléchargements des tubes interplanétaires de Michael Jackson sont aussi en hausse exponentielle avec, en une semaine, 2,6 millions de téléchargements numériques du chanteur et du groupe les Jackson 5, contre environ 48 000 chargements la semaine d’avant. Michael Jackson n’est pas mort…

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Très largement partagée sur les réseaux sociaux, la vidéo montre des personnes âgées allongées à même le sol ou dans un état d’inconscience sur un fauteuil roulant (lien en arabe), dans un environnement à l’hygiène plus que douteuse. Les autorités, alertées par les réseaux sociaux, ont pris des mesures contre les responsables de cette maison de retraite de Batna, à 310 km au sud-est d’Alger.“Suite à la diffusion d’une vidéo sur les réseaux sociaux montrant l’état d’abandon déplorable et la négligence dont sont victimes les pensionnaires du centre pour personnes âgées de la wilaya de Batna, la ministre, Ghania Eddalia, (…) a pris des mesures fermes et immédiates en mettant fin aux fonctions du directeur et d’autres responsables de cet établissement”, annonce, dans un communiqué, le ministère de la Solidarité nationale, de la Famille et de la Condition de la femme. Le directeur des Affaires sociales de la Wilaya (préfecture, NDLR) de Batna a été chargé d’engager des poursuites judiciaires à l’encontre des responsablesMinistère de la solidarité

#Dézédie ! Limoger le directeur de la maison des personnes âgées de Batna, d’accord! Mais me reste tout de même en travers de la gorge cette question: ces personnes âgées ont des parents? Notamment des enfants…#Dézédiennes #Dézédiens bonjour ! Bonjour Bladi ! pic.twitter.com/YWL8gOrBPR — hakim laalam (@laalamhakimus) 15 janvier 2019

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franceinfo Afrique : Vous avez écrit ce film en pensant à Omar Sy. Pourquoi lui pour une expérience, celle du retour aux sources, qui aurait pu se dérouler n’importe où dans le monde ?Philippe Godeau : Je voulais faire un film en Afrique et j’avais la trame de cette histoire. Je l’ai racontée à Omar et il a trouvé l’idée très intéressante. Avec Agnès de Sacy, je l’ai écrite en pensant évidemment à Omar à chaque page, avec le Sénégal pour décor et en jonglant avec ce qui est déjà la réalité d’Omar, un acteur connu, originaire de ce pays et né dans les Yvelines.Pourquoi souhaitiez-vous tourner en Afrique ?Quand j’étais adolescent, j’allais voir mon père qui travaillait au Mali. Ces voyages m’ont transformé. J’ai eu envie, grâce au cinéma, d’essayer pendant près de 2h de faire ressentir l’expérience d’un voyage en Afrique, et dans ce cas particulier au Sénégal.C’est donc un double, voire un triple retour aux sources pour vous, Omar Sy et son alter ego cinématographique Seydou Tall ?C’est vrai ! Chacun, pour des raisons différentes, avait envie de transmettre et de faire ressentir des valeurs un peu perdues ici : l’hospitalité, le partage, cette notion du temps qui n’est pas la même, la spiritualité qui est partout… Et, encore une fois, ce qu’on ressent en faisant un tel voyage. Omar Sy explique qu’il n’était pas retourné au Sénégal depuis huit ans quand il a fait ce film… Il y avait évidemment une émotion particulière chez lui pendant le tournage. Comment s’exprimait-elle ?Oui, tout à fait ! C’était bien, parce que ça allait avec le film. Il voulait arriver plus tôt au Sénégal et je lui ai dit de venir la veille. Il ne connaissait pas Lionel (Basse) qui joue Yao. Ce qui était important, c’était de tourner, de filmer et de vivre leur voyage dans la continuité de ce nous avions écrit. Au bout de cinq jours, nous avons tourné la scène de la prière (la voiture de son personnage est coincée au milieu de la traditionnelle prière du vendredi). C’est l’expérience d’une immersion très forte dès les premiers jours, celle de se retrouver au Sénégal et au cœur de ce qu’il connaissait déjà. Contrairement à son personnage, Omar est proche de ses racines. L’émotion du personnage et de l’homme se confondait.Seydou Tall apparaît comme un homme vide ou vidé quand il arrive à Dakar, notamment parce que c’est un voyage qu’il aurait aimé faire avec son fils. Comment avez-vous construit ce personnage avec Omar Sy ?A partir de l’idée de quelqu’un qui a réussi selon nos critères. On veut toujours comparer l’Europe et l’Afrique avec les mêmes critères et je pense que c’est une erreur. Mais très vite, à travers cet homme, on s’aperçoit que la réussite professionnelle et financière est très superficielle. Seydou Tall veut faire ce voyage pour se rapprocher de son fils, mais c’est un échec parce que son ex-compagne ne laisse pas ce dernier partir. Seydou Tall est le reflet de beaucoup d’entre nous. Nous avons des métiers prenants et nous oublions l’essentiel.Le personnage de Yao est à la fois ancré dans sa réalité sénégalaise et ouvert sur le monde. C’est un adolescent très sensible, cultivé, qui lit beaucoup de classiques. Quelle était votre ambition pour ce personnage ?Ce qu’il y a un peu dans le film, à savoir cette modernité de l’Afrique, en particulier du Sénégal qui se développe tout en restant très proche de ses traditions. C’est déjà ce que je ressentais quand je faisais mes voyages quand j’étais adolescent. On retrouve également cela chez le personnage de Gloria, une femme indépendante interprétée par Fatoumata (Diawara).Durant le Mondial 2018, il y a eu cette polémique autour du fait qu’on renvoyait les joueurs de l’équipe de France à leurs origines africaines. Avez-vous un avis sur la question ? Je vais répéter ce que j’ai entendu Omar répondre à cette question. Il dit qu’il n’a pas à choisir, qu’il se sent autant Français que Sénégalais. Je partage son opinion. Je trouve justement intéressant de montrer aussi l’autre côté. Seydou Tall, qui perd ses racines et qui est né en France, est un peu démasqué là-bas quand on lui dit : “Tu viens de France, ça se voit”. Je partage l’idée qu’on n’est pas obligé de choisir entre plusieurs origines, on peut être tout à la fois.Pourquoi avez-vous choisi le prénom Yao qui n’est pas du tout sénégalais ? J’avais choisi ce prénom-là. Evidemment, on m’a fait remarquer que ce n’était pas sénégalais. On a changé de titre. Mais, moi aussi, j’ai le droit d’être un peu superstitieux (rires). J’ai très mal vécu ce changement de titre, donc on l’a justifié dans le film en donnant à Yao des origines togolaises.

Yao, un film de Philippe Godeau,Sortie française: 23 janvier 2019

The eurozone’s finance ministers have tried to buy themselves a month’s breathing space in their struggle with the bond and currency markets over Greece’s public finances.

The stage has been set for another show-down in mid-March, when meetings are scheduled of the finance ministers of the eurozone (15 March) and the EU (16 March). Greece will deliver its own assessment by 16 March of how well its deficit reduction is going.

The European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) will also give an assessment in mid-March of whether further measures are needed in addition to those approved by EU finance ministers on Tuesday (16 February).

Ministers on Tuesday placed binding obligations on Greece to reduce its deficit by four percentage points this year and to bring it below 3% of gross domestic product by 2012. They also adopted a list of structural reforms that Greece should implement to remedy its public finances, including reductions in civil service recruitment, a pay freeze for the civil service, tax reform and a steep cut in the number of Greek municipal authorities.

The ministers told Greece to prepare “additional measures” that could be quickly introduced, if necessary, to reach the four percentage point cut, including raising value-added tax, placing excise duties on luxury goods and cars and increasing taxation on energy.

Greek commitments

Greece has committed itself to implementing the additional measures if called on to do so by the Eurogroup, the finance ministers of the eurozone. “To the extent that…risks materialise, the Greek government shall announce further measures,” George Papaconstantinou, Greece’s finance minister, said.

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the Eurogroup, said on Monday (15 February), however, that eurozone governments reserved the right, in an extreme scenario, to “impose” measures on the Greek government, using a voting procedure that would exclude Greece.

Officials from the Commission and the ECB will travel to Athens in the coming days to assess Greece’s progress in bringing down its budget deficit. Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, said that the officials would be on the ground by the beginning of next week, at the latest, and that they would work with officials from the International Monetary Fund who are providing support to the Greek government.

The finance ministers’ agreement appeared to have reduced concerns on the markets that Greece could default on its debt. The euro rose sharply after Tuesday’s meeting, before falling back slightly yesterday (17 February). Having hit a nine-month low against the dollar of $1.35 last Friday, it had recovered yesterday to $1.37.

Greece, meanwhile, called for governments to finalise the details of how financial support would be provided in the event that it does need to be rescued from default. At an EU summit last Thursday (11 February), leaders of the EU’s national governments agreed that they would take “determined and co-ordinated” action to save Greece if, having fully implemented agreed economic reforms, the country is nevertheless at risk of collapse.

Papaconstantinou said that an “explicit message” on how support would be provided was the “most logical” way to reassure markets.

Rehn has given Greece until Friday (19 February) to respond to allegations that previous Greek governments illegally used complex financial instruments (known as credit default swaps, or CDS) to keep part of the country’s budget deficit off its balance-sheet.

“If it turns out there is such a kind of securitisation or swaps which are not in line with the rules, then of course we need to take action,” Rehn said.

The Greek government has said that the financial instruments that were used by Greece were “fully legal and well known”.

The Pentagon is on track to deliver 1,400 ventilators by early May as part of an $84.4 million deal signed over the weekend, according to the Defense Department.

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) will buy a total of 8,000 ventilators from four companies — Combat Medical Systems, Hamilton Medical, VyAire Medical and Zoll Medical Corp. — as the federal government scrambles to address a shortage of life-saving medical supplies in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

“This will be a time-phased delivery over the next several months and we expect orders to begin shipment within the next few days,” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Andrews said in a statement. “Delivery locations will be determined by FEMA.”

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State officials have called on the federal government for help as they face a dire shortage of masks and ventilators at hospitals across the country.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpCuomo grilled by brother about running for president: ‘No. no’ Maxine Waters unleashes over Trump COVID-19 response: ‘Stop congratulating yourself! You’re a failure’ Meadows resigns from Congress, heads to White House MORE on Friday used the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to produce ventilators after days of hesitating to use the powers in the law.

The act, adopted in 1950 during the Korean War, grants broad authority to the president to mandate that private companies make products needed for infrastructure and national security. 

DLA has also provided more than $2 million in pharmaceuticals and medical supplies and 975,000 gallons of fuel for the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy hospital ships. The Comfort reached New York City on Monday while Mercy docked in Los Angeles last week. Both will be used to treat non-coronavirus patients, relieving local hospitals currently overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.

The illness has sickened more than 156,000 Americans and killed nearly 3,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In the military, there are at least 1,087 positive coronavirus cases, including 569 active-duty service members.

State lawmakers in Michigan balked at Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) proposal to extend her state of emergency declaration for another 70 days, as the number of Michigan who have tested positive for coronavirus catapulted on Wednseday.

Whitmer’s proposal would extend the social distancing order until mid-June, mlive.com reports. 

State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) pushed back at the prospect of such a long extension, saying that he would be in support of a “reasonable extension.”

“The circumstances surrounding the outbreak of this virus in Michigan change rapidly and often,” Shirkey said in a statement. “The conditions we are experiencing today will likely be different than those we encounter next week, next month, or in 70 days.

“As such, we feel a much shorter extension is logical to help protect our citizens and support our health systems,” he added.

Whitmer initially declared a state of emergency in Michigan on March 10 and it is set to expire on April 7. The stay-at-home order lasts until April 13, though it can still be extended. 

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Michel Barnier

The commissioner-designate for the internal market and services was a controversial choice for taking charge of financial services regulation. France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy stoked the controversy by citing the nomination as a French victory over the UK. British MEPs will seek commitments from the Frenchman not to damage the City of London’s competitiveness through burdensome regulation. Liberal MEPs are likely to test his commitment to furthering the single market, given the French government’s past resistance to proposed legislation. MEPs are likely to question Barnier on his plans for reforming EU rules on intellectual property rules, a controversial subject which the commissioner-designate has identified as a priority area.

Catherine Ashton

MEPs were not impressed by Ashton’s evasive answers when she held a first ‘exchange of views’ with MEPs on 2 December, the day after taking office as the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy and vice-president of the European Commission. They warned that they would expect more substance during her formal hearings, especially on the Middle East and the Balkans and relations with Russia and China. MEPs also want to know what she plans for the EU’s new diplomatic corps, the European External Action Service.

Dacian Ciolos

Another controversial choice because agriculture in Romania is so unreformed. Successive commissioners have pushed an agenda of reform, but those wanting to reform the Common Agricultural Policy fear that the Romanian will side with France to maintain levels of support. Ciolos¸’s task will be to set out his expertise on the subject – he is an agriculture specialist who worked in Romania’s embassy to the EU and later became agriculture minister. The delicate questions will be about his commitment to change.Karel De Gucht

The commissioner-designate for trade has a reputation for being outspoken and sure of himself. A former foreign minister of Belgium, the Flemish liberal will have to tread carefully. Under the Lisbon treaty, the European Parliament’s consent is required for the ratification of all trade agreements, which will whet MEPs’ appetite for hearing about De Gucht’s plans for the ongoing trade negotiations with Canada, India and Ukraine, among others, and prospects of reviving talks at the World Trade Organization.

Günther Oettinger

The Green group has expressed concern that Oettinger, the candidate for energy commissioner, will favour Germany’s large energy companies, such as E.ON and RWE. Oettinger may also face questions about a eulogy that he gave in April 2007 at the funeral of Hans Filbinger, his predecessor as minister-president of Baden-Württemberg. Filbinger was a naval judge during the Second World War and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said that Oettinger should have shown more respect for the victims of Nazi oppression.

Štefan Füle

MEPs are likely to question Štefan Füle, commissioner-designate for enlargement and neighbourhood policy, on his background in the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Füle studied at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, an elite institution, before entering the Czechoslovak diplomatic service in 1987, just as Soviet communism headed towards extinction. A mysterious car accident during his time as ambassador to Lithuania might also be raised.

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At least two health care workers have been fired after speaking out about the need for more coronavirus tests and protective equipment as hospitals across the country warn doctors and nurses not to publicize pandemic-fueled shortages of medical supplies.

An emergency room doctor in Washington state was fired last week after criticizing working conditions at his hospital where he had worked for 17 years, and a Chicago nurse was fired after warning colleagues their assigned masks offered inadequate protection against coronavirus, according to reports.

“Nurses and other health care workers are being muzzled in an attempt by hospitals to preserve their image,” said Ruth Schubert, a spokesperson for the Washington State Nurses Association. “No health care worker should face being disciplined or fired for speaking the truth.”

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Ming Lin, an emergency room doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., was terminated after he spoke out against what he called a lack of protective measures, while Lauri Mazurkiewicz, a nurse in Chicago, was fired by Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A similar warning was issued by NYU Langone Health in New York City, according to Bloomberg News.

Mazurkiewicz has sued her former employer for wrongful termination. She was dismissed for warning coworkers that the type of mask they were required to wear was “less safe and less effective” than the N-95 mask, according to the Chicago Tribune.

As the country braces for a spike in cases over the next few weeks, hospitals are warning employees not to speak publicly about working conditions, which could include shortages of N-95 masks and gowns, as well as beds and life-saving ventilators.

Media gag orders have been linked to hospitals across the country.

A doctor who manages two Facebook groups with some 70,000 physicians told Bloomberg News that she’s heard numerous accounts from doctors who have been warned by their hospitals not to draw public attention to problems they are encountering while handling the influx of coronavirus cases.

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“I’m hearing widespread stories from physicians across the country and they are all saying: ‘We have these stories that we think are important to get out, but we are being told by our hospital systems that we are not allowed to speak to the press, and if we do so there will be extreme consequences,” Nisha Mehta, a radiologist in Charlotte, N.C., told Bloomberg, adding that many doctors are receiving “daily emails” about hospital gag orders.

“The public needs to hear these stories and other physicians need to hear them to be warned against what’s coming,” Mehta added. “It’s so important that everyone understands how bad this is going to get.”

Hospital administrators say the measures have been taken to protect patient privacy.

But health care workers like Lin argue that sounding the alarm about unsafe working conditions is part of the doctor’s credo.

“Our oath is to do no harm,” Lin told Bloomberg. “I spoke out for patient safety and as a result I got terminated.”

Updated at 12:07 p.m.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpBiden campaign: Trump and former vice president will have phone call about coronavirus Esper: Military personnel could help treat coronavirus patients ‘if push comes to shove’ Schumer calls for military official to act as medical equipment czar MORE’s reelection campaign tweeted out manipulated audio to make it sound like former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenBiden campaign: Trump and former vice president will have phone call about coronavirus Overnight Health Care: Trump resists pressure for nationwide stay-at-home order | Trump open to speaking to Biden about virus response | Fauci gets security detail | Outbreak creates emergency in nursing homes 16 things to know today about coronavirus outbreak MORE called the coronavirus a “hoax” in an effort to draw attention to what it views as Twitter’s double standard in policing political speech.

The new Trump campaign video is styled after an ad released by the Democratic super PAC Priorities USA, which featured misleading audio of Trump describing the coronavirus as a “hoax.”

The president’s campaign has flagged multiple Democratic videos for Twitter in which he is heard calling the coronavirus a “hoax,” arguing that the content runs afoul of the social media giant’s manipulated media guidelines. Twitter has declined to sanction the Democratic ads.

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In the Trump campaign ad released Thursday, Biden can be heard saying: “The coronavirus is a hoax.”

Biden never called the coronavirus a “hoax.” The audio is deceptively spliced together from two different times that Biden spoke.

The Trump campaign is making the case that Democrats also deceptively edited audio to make it sound like Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

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The campaign released the new Biden audio to see if Twitter would enforce its manipulated media standards on both sides, or only on the Trump campaign.

“Twitter has so far effectively instituted a ‘Biden protection rule,’ refusing to apply their manipulated media label to video and audio of President Trump that every independent fact checker says is false,” a Trump campaign official said. “This tweet forces the issue and makes Twitter decide. It can enforce its arbitrary rules fairly and equally, or it can have its policy exposed as totally ineffective or a partisan sham. It’s their move.”

Last week, the Trump campaign flagged new content on Twitter that it said had been deceptively edited to make it seem like the president had called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

Several videos promoted by Democrats, including the Priorities USA ad, have been viewed millions of times, and feature audio of Trump saying: “The coronavirus, this is their new hoax.”

Fact checkers at The Washington Post, Snopes, PolitiFact and FacCheck.org have determined that it is false to claim that Trump called the virus a “hoax.” Rather, he used the term while talking about Democratic efforts to politicize the virus.

Trump’s full quote was: “Coronavirus. They’re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs, you say, ‘How’s President Trump doing?’, ‘Oh, nothing, nothing.’ They have no clue, they don’t have any clue … And this is their new hoax. But you know we did something that’s been pretty amazing.”

The Trump campaign has threatened legal action against the television stations running the Priorities USA ad.

And it sent requests to Twitter to review the ad under its manipulated media guidelines.

Twitter responded by saying that the ads did not violate their manipulated media guidelines.

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So far, Twitter has only used the manipulated media tag once, to put a warning on a Trump campaign video.

The sanctioned video features footage of Biden saying: “We can only reelect Donald Trump.”

The social media company determined that the Trump campaign video did not include Biden’s full remarks and therefore had been taken out of context.

In a full clip of the moment, Biden says, “We can only reelect Donald Trump if in fact we get engaged in this circular firing squad here. It’s gotta be a positive campaign.”