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Aug 2022
Ukraine: Moscow aims for "total control" of Donbass and the south, a pocket of resistance in Mariupol

The humanitarian disaster continues in Ukraine. About a thousand civilians are still entrenched in a factory in the Azovstal industrial zone, in Mariupol, a city that the Kremlin now announces that it fully controls. And no evacuation corridor is planned...

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03
Aug 2022
Drought: power plants, agriculture... Who consumes the most water in France?

It's a new heat spike. An umpteenth this summer, one might say. France faces this Wednesday August 3 the hottest day of the third heat wave recorded since June 2022, with temperatures which could reach up to 40 ° C in the New Aquitaine region and a...

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03
Aug 2022
Purchasing power: a first component about to be definitively adopted

This 'emergency” text, which carries a total of 20 billion euros in expenditure, will be definitively approved by the Assembly in the middle of the afternoon, then by the Senate at the end of the day.Parliamentarians will also try in the evening to...

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03
Aug 2022
Germany: Scholz opens the door to an extension of nuclear power plants

The latest nuclear power plants "are only relevant for the production of electricity and only for a small part of it", but "it can still make sense" not to disconnect them from the network as planned, the German Chancellor.Germany has in principle decided...

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03
Aug 2022
In the Iraqi Parliament, crossed destinies of demonstrators

The speech is often modeled on the rhetoric of the Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr and is accompanied by social demands: reform of the political system and eradication of corruption but also jobs for young people and efficient public services.- The Exalted TeacherAli...

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03
Aug 2022
When a Ukrainian blacksmith contributes to the war effort

Owner of a small but successful business selling metal furniture to wealthy European customers, he now manufactures anti-tank barriers to protect local volunteer battalions in Sumy (north-eastern Ukraine) and suitable iron stoves for the trenches.The services...

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03
Aug 2022
Energy: Brussels unveils its plan to respond to Putin

Energy savings, massification of renewables and diversification of gas supplies. With these three pillars, has Europe found the martingale to regain its energy independence? This Wednesday, May 18, the President of the European Commission, Ursura von der...

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Aug 2022
In Haiti, the uncertain future of children forced to flee gang violence

Temporarily separated from their parents, they kill time by resting on the fine foam mattresses installed on the concrete floors of this establishment in the capital Port-au-Prince, between two activities organized by monitors."They are traumatized, but if...

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03
Aug 2022
Understand everything about Huawei's ban from the 5G network in Canada

After more than three years of procrastination, Canada has finally decided. Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are banned from the country's 5G networks. The decision was taken following "a full review by our security agencies and in consultation...

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03
Aug 2022
Zimbabwe: solar tricycles for peasant women's journeys

Until a rust-colored electric tricycle, like a moped nested in an open trailer, powered by solar energy, came to change the game."We were carrying a lot on our heads. The tricycle lightens the burden," smiles this 47-year-old peasant, from Domboshava, near...

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03
Aug 2022
"It all starts with us": water lookouts track drought in Brittany

Their waders raised to the hips will not protect them higher than the ankles: the scale graduated up to two meters and fixed under a bridge displays for the river Le Chevré, a depth of 98 mm, a level already observed but " not before September" according...

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03
Aug 2022
War in Ukraine: the first shipment of grain awaiting inspection in Turkey

It is called the "Razoni". A team of Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to inspect, on Wednesday, near Istanbul (Turkey), this cargo ship containing the first shipment of grain exported by Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24....

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03
Aug 2022
Pelosi: Behind China's anger, insecurity over Taiwan

Ms Pelosi, 82, who landed in Taipei on Tuesday evening, is the highest elected US official to visit the island claimed by Beijing in 25 years.In previous days, as the trip was announced in the media without being officially confirmed, the Chinese government...

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Aug 2022
Wines: the Château Troplong Mondot estate distinguished for its environmental commitment

Admittedly, the Jeep driven by Aymeric de Gironde is not very eco-friendly, but it is undoubtedly one of the rare machines on the property to run on diesel. If Château Troplong Mondot has made the environment a central axis of its development for thirty...

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03
Aug 2022
Drought: in the North, "unprecedented restrictions" and thirsty potatoes

Under the fork of this operator, the ground crumbles like sand. And at the end of a freshly dug foot, only "two or three" potatoes seem viable. The others, the size of a ping-pong ball or even a marble, "would need water to grow", he explains.Except that...

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Aug 2022
In Alsace, a "solar house" in response to the climate emergency

The facade, facing south, is a gigantic glass roof of 160 m2 and 10 meters high, squared with metal.Tilted towards the ground, it evokes either a spider's web or a diamond. The flat roof is also inclined.Inside, an elegant staircase leads to three large...

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03
Aug 2022
Purchasing power: what the amending budget voted in the Senate contains

The left voted against, the right for. The Senate adopted at first reading, shortly before 4 a.m. this Wednesday, August 3, the second part of the measures to support purchasing power. In detail, 225 senators voted in favor of the text, and 101 against.The...

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03
Aug 2022
EELV, the dumbest environmentalists on the planet

To understand how the Greens' losing machine works, it's best to ask one of its members. Or rather to a former, the most famous of them, the only one to have obtained electoral success worthy of the name, with 16% of the votes in the European elections....

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Aug 2022
In Hong Kong, one of the last mahjong tile engravers

Handcrafting tiles for the popular Chinese game was once a source of income for many people.But the introduction of much cheaper machine-produced games has reduced their clientele, and made their craft a rarity.Mr. Cheung's family alone owned four workshops,...

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02
Aug 2022
What we know about the case of Sébastien Raoult, a young Frenchman imprisoned in Morocco

His father requests his extradition to France rather than the United States.Here is what we know about this case.- Who is Sebastien Raoult? -This 21-year-old Frenchman, who lives in Epinal with his parents, was in his second year of computer studies when...

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02
Aug 2022
France enters the hard part of the new heatwave episode

"Wednesday will be the hottest day on a national scale", warns Météo-France, but the heat peak will still be present on Thursday "by shifting towards the East".'Between Wednesday and Thursday the maximum will often be greater than or equal to 35°C...

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02
Aug 2022
Kansas votes to guarantee abortion rights in test ballot

Voters in this conservative state rejected an amendment that would have removed language guaranteeing the right to abortion in the state Constitution and could have paved the way for stricter regulation or a ban.This election was seen as a political test...

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Aug 2022
Pelosi's visit: Taiwan "will not back down" in the face of the Chinese threat, says its president

During a meeting with Ms. Tsai in Taipei, Ms. Pelosi said she had come "in peace" to the region while assuring that the United States would not abandon its commitments to the democratic island threatened with invasion by Beijing."Today, our delegation ......

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Aug 2022
Covid: the level of the health protocol will be decided ten days before the start of the school year

"This health protocol draws lessons from the difficulties of the past year", he assured the deputies during questions to the government, highlighting the establishment throughout the year of "a period of ten-day implementation" to allow educational teams...

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