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Aug 2022
Formula 1: Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin in 2023 (team)

Alonso celebrated his 41st birthday on Friday. He finished 8th in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, ahead of his French teammate Esteban Ocon, and currently sits 10th in the World Championship after 13 out of 22 races with 41 points.The Spaniard will succeed...

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Aug 2022
Cracks and landslides: Mont Blanc increasingly difficult to access

Officially, none of the seven routes leading to the summit, at 4,807 meters, is closed but the access conditions at the end of July are so degraded that only the most experienced climbers are still able to achieve it, according to specialists. of the mountain.In...

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31
Jul 2022
In flooded Kentucky, door-to-door to count the dead

Some mountainous areas in eastern Kentucky remain inaccessible after flooding that turned some roads into rivers, washed away bridges, swept away homes and killed at least 28 people, according to a new toll from authorities.Damage to mobile phone antennas...

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31
Jul 2022
Nancy Pelosi in Asia, with a possible delicate stage in Taiwan

After having long maintained the vagueness around her program in Asia, Ms. Pelosi announced on Sunday leading 'a congressional delegation to the Indo-Pacific region to reaffirm America's unwavering commitment to its allies and friends in the region”.'In...

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31
Jul 2022
At the Château de Plaisance, focus on vitiforestry

When Vanessa Cherruau bought the Château de Plaisance, in Anjou, two years ago, it was already organic and biodynamic. But the young woman wanted to push the envelope further with vitiforestry, in order to recreate "a complete ecosystem" on the bald hillock...

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31
Jul 2022
Japan: "What I am today, I owe it to the baby box"

"I was wearing some of these clothes when they left me there," the 18-year-old told AFP. "These are the oldest memories of my childhood, I kept them preciously".Koichi became the first person to testify publicly this year after being abandoned in the baby...

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31
Jul 2022
In California, the largest fire of the year progresses

The blaze, dubbed "McKinney", destroyed more than 20,638 hectares of the Klamath National Forest, near the town of Yreka in northern California, the firefighting agency CalFire said.This is the largest wildfire since the start of the year in California, which...

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31
Jul 2022
In Syria, the last wooden boat manufacturers preserve a legacy

"We are the last family in Syria to make wooden ships and boats," Bahlawan told AFP. "It is the heritage of our ancestors. We fight every day to preserve it," adds the 39-year-old man on the edge of the island of Arwad, opposite the city of Tartous, in the...

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31
Jul 2022
Race to Downing Street: Choice time for the Tories

On the strength of favorable polls after the first televised duels opposing the former finance minister, the head of diplomacy, who promises massive tax cuts, accumulates rallies while the race for Downing Street between in the heart of the matter.The members...

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31
Jul 2022
Rain of tributes for Bill Russell, legendary basketball player and civil rights activist

"Bill Russell, the most prolific winner in American sports history, passed away peacefully today at the age of 88, with his wife Jeannine at his bedside," his family announced on Twitter. of the former player.The NBA and more broadly American sport has lost...

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31
Jul 2022
A new episode of heat wave begins Monday in the south of France

Ardèche (07), Drôme (26), Gard (30), Pyrénées-Orientales (66) and Vaucluse (84): five departments have been placed under orange vigilance in the south of France.They should go through a "new heatwave episode whose intensity and duration will be less than...

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31
Jul 2022
Purchasing power: the amending budget in the Senate with the tax on "superprofits"

Continuation of the tariff shield on energy and the fuel discount at 30 cents per liter in September-October then 10 in November-December, revaluation of the index point for civil servants... The amending finance bill for 2022 opens 44 billion euros in loans,...

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31
Jul 2022
Women's Euro: England wants to go after its dream, Germany regain its glory

Full stadiums, great atmosphere, intense and often spectacular matches, the competition will have more than met expectations three years - and a Covid-19 pandemic - after a World Cup-2019 in France which had already set the bar high. ."All the matches were...

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31
Jul 2022
Soldiers in civilian areas, collaborators of the Russians: the delicate questions of the war in Ukraine

AFP visited many affected places in the Donetsk region, which the Russians want to seize, and found that residential areas, with no apparent military target, were regularly hit.In Pokrovsk, 85 km south of Kramatorsk, the region's major city, a strike...

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31
Jul 2022
From the shadows to the stage, Saudi DJs headline

"A lot of female DJs have emerged" in recent years in Saudi Arabia, explains Leen Naïf, whose real name is, interviewed by AFP at the end of May, assuring that the public has become "more comfortable" with this presence. feminine.This is not her first show...

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31
Jul 2022
Champions Trophy: Messi and Neymar feast

Like in their best days. A diabolical hook from "Leo" (22nd), a direct free kick (45th 3) and a penalty (82nd) ​​from "Ney", the stars of PSG ensured the show. And Kylian Mbappé, the third jewel, suspended, was not even there!In tune, the world and European...

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31
Jul 2022
Lebanon: residents protest against the endless queues for bread

"I waited three hours today, more than two hours yesterday, to get a bag of bread... And then what next?", indignant Mr. Mansour, a 48-year-old father, in front of a bakery from Beirut.In this country hit since 2019 by an unprecedented economic crisis, 80%...

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31
Jul 2022
Go or stay? The dilemma of Ukrainian parents in bombarded Bakhmout

Olena has been inventive so far in trying to hide the truth of what is happening from her curly-haired daughter, but her creativity runs out."Sometimes I just turn up the volume on the TV (...). If I constantly tell the child that it's war, I will disturb...

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31
Jul 2022
Cracks and landslides: Mont Blanc increasingly difficult to access

Officially, none of the seven routes leading to the summit, at 4,807 meters, is closed but the access conditions at the end of July are so degraded that only the most experienced climbers are still able to achieve it, according to specialists. of the mountain.In...

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31
Jul 2022
Women's Euro: England triumph against Germany after a historic competition

England has finally broken its long wait, since the 1966 World Cup won by the men, and it is to its women's team that it owes it: "Football's coming home", the unofficial anthem of the national selections can finally resonate on an air that is not...

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31
Jul 2022
Tour de France Women: Van Vleuten alone in the world

"It's a dream come true: winning a summit finish in yellow," savored the Dutchwoman.Yellow jersey since her victorious solo number the day before at Markstein, the 2019 world champion drove home the point by winning the 8th and final stage, at the top...

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31
Jul 2022
New fires in the South-East of France

"Four firefighters are injured", announced Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin in a tweet about the fire which broke out around 3:00 p.m. in a pine forest in the town of Aubais (2,000 inhabitants), south of Nîmes, in a department at extreme fire risk and...

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31
Jul 2022
In Iraq, influential leader Moqtada Sadr calls for broader protest

Saturday, for the second time in less than a week, thousands of supporters of Moqtada Sadr invaded the seat of Parliament, in the ultra-secure Green Zone of Baghdad, to protest against a candidate for the post of Prime Minister proposed by their adversaries.On...

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Jul 2022
DRC: two people killed by peacekeepers at a border post in the east

In a video of the incident shared on social networks, we see men, at least one in police uniform and another in Congolese military, advancing towards the immobilized convoy on the other side of the closed barrier in Kasindi. , in the territory of Beni, on...

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