Face-to-face with the Pope, face-to-face with Macron: Biden in Rome on Friday as the G20 curtain raises

The meeting promises to be "warm" with the pope, a tad less with Emmanuel Macron: Joe Biden is in Rome on Friday, as a room heater before the G20 summit, and after promising a "historic" plan for the American economy . The American president landed around 2:25 a.m. local time (0025 GMT) in Italy. Just before boarding Air Force One, he presented a "historic" plan to Washington committing trillions of spending on infrastructure, energy transition and social benefits. But the project is still awaiting the green light from American parliamentarians, against a backdrop of dissension in the Democratic camp. After weeks of tortuous negotiations and disappointments, with a sinking confidence rating, Joe Biden would like during his European stay - in the wake of the G20 in Rome, he will go to Glasgow for the major COP26 climate conference - take a little height, he who sees himself as the spokesperson for democracies in the face of authoritarian regimes, China in the lead.

Four porn actors indicted for rape

Four porn film actors have been indicted for rape in the investigation into the "French Bukkake" pornographic video platform. Last year in this same investigation, four producers or directors were indicted for aggravated "pimping" and "trafficking in human beings", including producers nicknamed "Pascal OP" and "Mat Hadix". In early 2020, the Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation, then a judicial investigation on October 17 targeting the "French Bukkake" platform. About fifty victims have been identified, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Of the four people recently indicted "three of them have been remanded in custody. The last person has been placed under judicial supervision," said a judicial source. "What was committed on these film sets are rapes and therefore each actor who participated in these scenes can be worried for acts of aggravated rape, even torture and acts of barbarism", explained to AFP Me Lorraine Questiaux, lawyer for several victims.

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