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Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
BIC: Disclosure Of Trading In Own Shares For May 2025
Disclosure Of Trading In Own SharesFor May 2025 Clichy, France – June 05, 2025 In compliance with general regulation on share buy-backs, Société BIC declares below the transactions made on its own shares for May 2025: No transactions for May 2025. Contacts Brice ParisVP Investor Relations +33 6 42 87 54 Investor Bethridge ToovellVP Global Communications+1 917 821 Isabelle de Segonzac Image 7, Press Relations contact+33 6 89 87 61 39isegonzac@ Agenda All dates to be confirmed First Half 2025 Results July 30, 2025 Third Quarter 2025 Net Sales October 28, 2025 About BIC A global leader in stationery, lighters, and shavers, BIC brings simplicity and joy to everyday life. For 80 years, BIC's commitment to delivering high-quality, affordable, and trusted products has established BIC as a symbol of reliability and innovation. With a presence in over 160 countries, and over 13,000 team members worldwide, BIC's portfolio includes iconic brands and products such as BIC® 4-Color™, BodyMark®, Cello®, Cristal®, Inkbox®, BIC Kids®, Lucky™, Rocketbook®, Tattly®, Tipp-Ex®, Wite-Out®, Djeep®, EZ Load™, EZ Reach®, BIC® Flex™, Soleil®, Tangle Teezer® and more. Listed on Euronext Paris and included in the SBF120 and CAC Mid 60 indexes, BIC is also recognized for its steadfast commitments to sustainability and education. For more, visit and to see BIC's full range of products visit Follow BIC on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. Attachment BIC_Trading in own shares_MAY25
NDTV
25-05-2025
- NDTV
US Crypto Tycoon Drugs Tourist, Ties And Urinates On Him For Bitcoin Password
A Kentucky crypto millionaire accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian man in a luxury Soho apartment to force him to reveal his Bitcoin password has been ordered imprisonment without bail. John Woeltz, 37, faces multiple charges including kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon. He could face up to 25 years in prison. The victim, 28-year-old Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Turin, Italy, is a crypto trader believed to be worth $30 million. He had travelled to the US on May 6, telling his family he was coming for tourism and language study, The NY Post reported, citing Italian media. Once he arrived at the Prince Street rental, which prosecutors described as a "crypto commune" with stripper poles and cases of Cristal (a brand of champagne), he was allegedly held against his will, tortured, and forced to give up access to his crypto fortune. Carturan was allegedly tied to a chair with electrical wire, tased while his feet were in water, urinated on, forced to take drugs, and cut on his legs and arms with a chainsaw. He had an Apple AirTag tied around his neck. Authorities found Polaroids showing Carturan with a gun to his head and smoking crack cocaine through a pipe. They also found night vision goggles, a bulletproof vest, ballistic helmets, firearms, and ammunition inside the apartment. T-shirts bearing his image with crack in his mouth were also recovered. Assistant District Attorney Michael Mattson told the court that Woeltz at one point "carried the victim to the top flight of stairs of the apartment in the compound and hung the victim over the ledge, after threatening to kill the victim if the victim did not provide the defendant with the victim's Bitcoin password." Carturan managed to escape on Friday morning by telling Woeltz he needed to enter the password into his laptop. When Woeltz turned away, Carturan, bloodied and barefoot, ran down the stairs and flagged down a traffic cop on the street. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with injuries including a chainsaw wound to the arm and a head injury from being pistol-whipped. One of Woeltz's assistants, Beatrice Folchi, was initially arrested but later released after prosecutors declined to pursue charges immediately. At least one other suspect is still being sought. Woeltz is worth an estimated $100 million, law enforcement sources said. He was arraigned Saturday in Manhattan Criminal Court, where he answered a nearly inaudible "yes" when Judge Eric Schumacher asked if he had a gun. His lawyer later clarified that the weapon was in Kentucky, not New York. Woeltz owns a 150-acre property in Smithland, Kentucky, and reportedly travelled by private jet and helicopter. How he amassed his fortune is still unclear, but sources said he worked in crypto security and may have been involved in a hedge fund.
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The High-Dollar Steak Kim Jong-Un Eats
Often referred to as a hermit kingdom due to its strict isolationist policies, North Korea remains an inscrutable nation to most people outside of the country. Its leader, Kim Jong-Un, who was preceded by grandfather Kim Il-Sung and father Kim Jong-Il, is just as inscrutable as the nation itself. We do know that Kim Jong-Un has been linked to a multitude of crimes against humanity, accused of assassinating family members for political gain, and opted to run North Korea as a totalitarian dictatorship, which means that the citizenry enjoy no personal freedoms and must fully abide by the strictures set by the government. We also know quite a bit about Kim Jong-Un's preferred foods, and unsurprisingly for a person born into such wealth and prosperity, the dictator has a taste for the finer things in life. This includes frequent meals featuring imported Kobe beef, much loved by Kim Jong-Un as well as his late father, Kim Jong-Il. While pricing varies, it's not uncommon for Kobe beef to cost as much as $500 per pound. According to a sushi chef that was previously employed by the pair, Kobe steaks were often accompanied by Cristal, a high-end brand of Champagne also known for its steep price tag. Other favorite indulgences of Kim Jong-Un include Emmental cheese and Parma ham as well as gold foil-wrapped cigarettes from iconic fashion brand Yves Saint Laurent. Read more: Martha Stewart: What She Really Eats Kobe beef is so beloved (and expensive) because it must meet several strict criteria to earn its lofty designation. Kobe beef must be derived from cattle of the Tajima bloodline of the Japanese Black breed from Japan's Hyogo Prefecture. Cattle must also be fed a special diet to facilitate exquisite marbling and earn a Beef Marble Score of 6 or greater. (This Japanese beef scoring system features a quality range of 3 to 12.) For Kim Jong-Un, who was estimated to have $5 billion in personal wealth in 2019, the high price of Kobe beef probably seems like a minor expense. However, when compared to the immense poverty affecting the North Korean people, the dictator's excesses are distinctly cruel and uncaring. Food insecurity is a global crisis, but the citizens of North Korea face insurmountable challenges due to the totalitarian government under which they subsist. As reported by the World Food Programme, 10.7 million people living in the country are underfed, while 18% of North Korean children exhibit health effects associated with chronic malnutrition. Food shortages are also common, as Kim Jong-Un is primarily concerned with maintaining his authority and accumulating more power instead of ensuring his people have the resources they need. While there's little the outside world can do to help people struggling within North Korea, Kim Jong-Un's actions show the dangers of what can happen when a dictator steeped in unbelievable privilege is afforded unlimited power. Read the original article on Mashed.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Nothing captures the madness of our times better than the trans ruling hysteria
Just when you thought the meltdown over the Supreme Court's trans ruling couldn't get any madder, here comes Lord Cashman. In the Lords yesterday, the EastEnders alumnus and Labour peer said some trans people are fleeing Britain and 'seeking asylum' in friendlier nations. That's right: people are apparently upping sticks because a court of law said what every toddler once knew to be true – that men are men and women are women. The ruling has stirred up dread and panic in LGBTQ circles, said Lord Cashman. 'Currently, trans people in this country live in fear, they live in fear of their safety, their futures', he said. It's so bad that some of his trans friends are 'looking at seeking asylum in countries where they will not fear [for their] safety.' My money is on this being a lot of bourgeois bluster. Leftish types are forever threatening to leave the country if things don't go their way, but they rarely do. Columnists promised to flee if Boris Johnson won the 2019 election. Luvvies said they'd be out of here if the 'gammon' voted for Brexit. And yet they're all still here, in this supposed hellsite of a nation, living it up as nicely as they always did. So we can chill if some of Cashman's chums really did say over a glass of Cristal that they're thinking of packing their bags. That's just something well-off liberals say. I doubt we're about to witness an exodus of 'the oppressed' just because a court affirmed what even the Neanderthals knew – that if you have a penis, you're not a woman. And yet, the very fact Lord Cashman could stand up in the Lords and say trans people might have to flee our wicked shores is incredibly revealing. It is a testament to the untrammeled hysteria that has followed the Supreme Court's ruling. It is of a piece with the hyperbole and handwringing that has greeted this entirely sensible ruling. No sooner had the five judges said that a woman is an adult human female than the trans lobby and its allies were darkly warning of tyranny. Our safety and dignity have been destroyed, said trans activists and their sympathisers. Imagine the industrial levels of brass neck it must require to bleat about your 'safety' when you were part of a movement that green-lighted the jailing of rapists alongside women. Lord Cashman says his trans friends fear for their 'safety' and 'futures'. How does he think women have been feeling these past few years? They've been told they must welcome men into their most intimate spaces: changing rooms, toilets, rape-crisis centres. They watched violent men be placed among vulnerable women in the prison estate. They've seen biological males nab women's medals in every sport from cycling to snooker. What about their safety, my lord? What about the 'futures' of girls who love sport but dread having to compete against hulking fellas who think they're women? He will forgive me, I hope, if I reserve my sympathy for real women whose real rights have been undermined, rather than for fantasy women whose 'right' to go wherever they please has justly been taken down a peg or two. People like Cashman have no idea how nutty they sound when they say there might be a great fleeing following this ruling. All the ruling says is that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, 'woman' means biological women and 'man' means biological man. This was a given for centuries. Millennia, in fact. We've known since we first came down from the trees that we are sexually dimorphic – even if it took a few more million years to come up with words like that. It isn't the Supreme Court ruling that's crazy – it's that we needed it in the first place. Nothing better captures the lunacy of the woke era than the fact that a court ruling stating the truth of biology has caused such a storm. That's down to the likes of Lord Cashman, Keir Starmer and the rest of the establishment that slavishly bowed to the post-truth notion that you could have a todger and be a woman. Having helped to prop up such unscientific delirium, these people made truth itself seem controversial. And now their 'friends' apparently want to flee the nation because reason has been restored and women's rights have been upheld. You know what? If truth and women's freedom offend you that much, I might just chip in for your ticket. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Nothing captures the madness of our times better than the trans ruling hysteria
Just when you thought the meltdown over the Supreme Court's trans ruling couldn't get any madder, here comes Lord Cashman. In the Lords yesterday, the EastEnders alumnus and Labour peer said some trans people are fleeing Britain and 'seeking asylum' in friendlier nations. That's right: people are apparently upping sticks because a court of law said what every toddler once knew to be true – that men are men and women are women. The ruling has stirred up dread and panic in LGBTQ circles, said Lord Cashman. 'Currently, trans people in this country live in fear, they live in fear of their safety, their futures', he said. It's so bad that some of his trans friends are 'looking at seeking asylum in countries where they will not fear [for their] safety.' My money is on this being a lot of bourgeois bluster. Leftish types are forever threatening to leave the country if things don't go their way, but they rarely do. Columnists promised to flee if Boris Johnson won the 2019 election. Luvvies said they'd be out of here if the 'gammon' voted for Brexit. And yet they're all still here, in this supposed hellsite of a nation, living it up as nicely as they always did. So we can chill if some of Cashman's chums really did say over a glass of Cristal that they're thinking of packing their bags. That's just something well-off liberals say. I doubt we're about to witness an exodus of 'the oppressed' just because a court affirmed what even the Neanderthals knew – that if you have a penis, you're not a woman. And yet, the very fact Lord Cashman could stand up in the Lords and say trans people might have to flee our wicked shores is incredibly revealing. It is a testament to the untrammeled hysteria that has followed the Supreme Court's ruling. It is of a piece with the hyperbole and handwringing that has greeted this entirely sensible ruling. No sooner had the five judges said that a woman is an adult human female than the trans lobby and its allies were darkly warning of tyranny. Our safety and dignity have been destroyed, said trans activists and their sympathisers. Imagine the industrial levels of brass neck it must require to bleat about your 'safety' when you were part of a movement that green-lighted the jailing of rapists alongside women. Lord Cashman says his trans friends fear for their 'safety' and 'futures'. How does he think women have been feeling these past few years? They've been told they must welcome men into their most intimate spaces: changing rooms, toilets, rape-crisis centres. They watched violent men be placed among vulnerable women in the prison estate. They've seen biological males nab women's medals in every sport from cycling to snooker. What about their safety, my lord? What about the 'futures' of girls who love sport but dread having to compete against hulking fellas who think they're women? He will forgive me, I hope, if I reserve my sympathy for real women whose real rights have been undermined, rather than for fantasy women whose 'right' to go wherever they please has justly been taken down a peg or two. People like Cashman have no idea how nutty they sound when they say there might be a great fleeing following this ruling. All the ruling says is that, for the purposes of the Equality Act, 'woman' means biological women and 'man' means biological man. This was a given for centuries. Millennia, in fact. We've known since we first came down from the trees that we are sexually dimorphic – even if it took a few more million years to come up with words like that. It isn't the Supreme Court ruling that's crazy – it's that we needed it in the first place. Nothing better captures the lunacy of the woke era than the fact that a court ruling stating the truth of biology has caused such a storm. That's down to the likes of Lord Cashman, Keir Starmer and the rest of the establishment that slavishly bowed to the post-truth notion that you could have a todger and be a woman. Having helped to prop up such unscientific delirium, these people made truth itself seem controversial. And now their 'friends' apparently want to flee the nation because reason has been restored and women's rights have been upheld. You know what? If truth and women's freedom offend you that much, I might just chip in for your ticket.
