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Jul 2022
Fires in Gironde: companies will benefit from long-term partial activity

France was hit in July by "outstanding" fires in Gironde, which ravaged nearly 21,000 hectares of forest.For the companies affected, in particular the campsites and restaurants near the fires, "we are going to implement crisis measures", promised Olivier...

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Jul 2022
In the heat of summer, Cubans overwhelmed by power cuts

"People can't stand the heat anymore, they go out at night in the street, on the balconies, waiting for the electricity to come back" to turn on their fans, Estrella Ramirez, 62, who lives in Bauta, told AFP. 29 km from Havana.The recurring power cuts...

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Jul 2022
In Iceland, a freezing dive between two continents

In the heart of Thingvellir National Park, on the edge of one of the largest Icelandic lakes, these corridors of submerged rocks form deep cavities - one of which exceeds 60 meters - nestled between the two continents, which move away from about two centimeters...

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Jul 2022
Near Kharkiv, Ukrainians begin a difficult reconstruction

Mala Rogan, located about thirty kilometers from the Russian border, was captured two weeks after the start of the war on February 24."You have to leave because we need the whole street," a Russian soldier explained to Ms. Kios, she recalls, before the military...

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Jul 2022
Exhibitions: in Brittany, a Mathurin Méheut summer

Alternately painter, draftsman, watercolourist, sculptor, creator of sets, Méheut wants to be independent of any school and remains "unclassifiable"."He is an eclectic artist who has expressed himself in a wide range of techniques and materials from very...

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Jul 2022
Covid-19: P2G3, a promising new antibody against Omicron and its sub-variants

Towards a new drug against Covid-19? While therapeutic alternatives are reduced in the face of Omicron, which continues to threaten the most fragile, two Swiss research centers announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new promising antibody against the coronavirus.P2G3,...

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Jul 2022
Tour de France Women: Annemiek van Vleuten, new yellow jersey, knocks out the race

Her compatriot Demi Vollering, the only one capable of competing with van Vleuten for just one time, is in second place in the general classification, 3 min 14 sec ahead of the Polish Katarzyna Niewiadoma, relegated to 4 min 33 sec."It's been such a...

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Jul 2022
3,000 "delinquent foreigners" deported in two years, according to Gérald Darmanin

"At the request of the President of the Republic, for two years, we have expelled 3,000 delinquent foreigners," he said during a press briefing at the Rhône prefecture, without specifying the nationalities or the charges."It's an unprecedented increase...

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Jul 2022
Energy savings: how are European countries organizing for next winter?

Last April, the Luxembourg Energy Minister, Claude Turmes, spoke of the need for the European Union to set up "coordinated action" so that the gas reserves of each member country are sufficient for the winter. On 26th July European energy ministers approved...

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Jul 2022
Hungarian F1 GP: Russell on pole for the first time in his career

Russell also gives Mercedes its first pole of the season after a difficult start to the year for the reigning world champion team.The second line of the 13th round of the season goes to Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), 3rd, ahead of Briton Lando Norris...

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Jul 2022
Monkey pox: three deaths outside Africa, including two in Spain

It is in the country most affected in the world by the epidemic according to the WHO, Spain, that a second person suffering from monkeypox died in Europe, and this, the day after the announcement of the first death in the country.'Among the 3,750 patients...

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Jul 2022
Covid-19: in the name of the health emergency, a decline in freedoms to be re-examined

Following the vote in Parliament, on August 1, the exceptional legal frameworks - state of emergency, management of the health crisis - which had been decided in the face of the health disaster will officially end.After a last green light given on Saturday...

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Jul 2022
Canoe kayak: Neveu is content with world bronze in slalom two years before the Paris Games

At the heart of a complicated season, it was with a broad smile that Boris Neveu, 36, climbed onto the podium for his fourth individual world medal (not counting his two silver medals in 2017 and 2018 in extreme kayaking, not Olympic at the time), he who...

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Jul 2022
Ukraine: female slices of war

That day, the three women are resting with the rest of their company in a village in eastern Ukraine, before a new rotation.They agree to give themselves up, a little, on their life at the front, this war which they did not expect, and these five months which...

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Jul 2022
Political crisis in Iraq: new irruption of pro-Sadr demonstrators in Parliament

Waving Iraqi flags, portraits of Moqtada Sadr and flags with religious insignia, thousands of demonstrators crowded the entrance hall of Parliament before entering the hemicycle, waving victory signs and taking selfies in a good-natured atmosphere, reported...

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Jul 2022
Crossover: congested roads and laborious standardization on the rail

"The situation is gradually recovering", assured a spokeswoman for Thalys after the shock of a train with an animal which forced 700 to 800 people to spend the night at Brussels-Midi in the Thalys, according to the spokesperson. . Others did the same in Paris...

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Jul 2022
War in Ukraine: Petro Poroshenko, from ex-president to battalion commander

During an interview given to the French television channel BFM TV on March 19, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, 56, could be seen dressed in a military uniform, with bulletproof vest and protective gloves put on. ahead. In the background, three...

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Jul 2022
Spain: second death of a patient infected with monkeypox

"Among the 3,750 patients (...), 120 cases were hospitalized and two died," said the Ministry's Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies in its latest report published on Saturday, without specifying the date of this second. death.The...

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Foot: Bordeaux and Saint-Etienne headliners of an L2 more raised than ever

"We have a goal of being at the top of the table, but we know that this season there are only two who are going up to L1 and there are heavy things around us", summed up the Paris coach. FC Thierry Laurey in the columns of Parisian.From the 2023-2024 season,...

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Jul 2022
In Finland, calls to stop "unbearable" Russian tourism

Although the Nordic country applied for NATO membership after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is the only EU country bordering Russia to still issue tourist visas to Russian citizens."I've been traveling here for 12 years," Boris Sourovtsev, a 37-year-old...

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The Cistern of Justinian: immersed in the mystical freshness of Byzantium

After five years of heavy work intended to protect it from the next earthquake, regularly promised to the city, this unmissable stage in history on the banks of the Bosphorus has been transformed into a spectacular sound and light stage which reveals the...

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Jul 2022
Crossover: nearly 800 km of traffic jams

Juillettists and Augustians were slowed down for 775 km around 11:00 a.m., indicates Bison Futé on its website.As usual, the Rhône Valley is the most congested, with around 141 km of slowdowns on the A7 motorway alone, after Lyon.Heading south, the Lyon-Orange...

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Jul 2022
War in Ukraine: Gazprom announces suspension of gas deliveries to Latvia

A kyiv court reduced the life sentence handed down to a Russian soldier last May to 15 years in prison. The 21-year-old sergeant had admitted to shooting a 62-year-old man in the northeast of the country at the end of February. Ukrainian prisoners captured...

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Jul 2022
Thalys: back to normal after the collision of an animal

"The first Thalys at 7:09 a.m. was 40 minutes late. Since then, things have been going smoothly," a spokesman for SNCF, majority shareholder of the Eurostar group, which now owns Thalys, told AFP."It's much better, the situation is gradually recovering,"...

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