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The heat wave is expected to hit the south on Monday then move north

Ardèche (07), Drôme (26), Gard (30), Pyrénées-Orientales (66) and Vaucluse (84) should go through a "new heat wave episode whose intensity and duration will be less than those of the previous episode" , said Météo-France in a bulletin on Sunday.The...

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Jul 2022
Cycling: Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten wins the Women's Tour de France

Yellow jersey since her victorious solo number the day before at Markstein, the Olympic time trial champion drove home the point by winning the 8th and final stage, at the top of the Vosges climb.Annemiek van Vleuten succeeds Jeannie Longo whose list of winners...

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Jul 2022
F1: Max Verstappen (Red Bull) wins the Hungarian GP

Tenth on the grid, the Dutchman came back to win ahead of the Mercedes of Britons Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, who started from pole position for the first time in his F1 career."I was hoping to be able to get closer to a podium, but we had a very good...

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Jul 2022
56,000 cases in France, wave of unprecedented magnitude in Japan ... Update on the pandemic

In France, the course has passed; in Japan, the wave is just beginning. While the number of cases continues to decrease in France, offering a welcome respite to hospital services, on the other side of the world, Japan is facing an explosion of contaminations,...

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Jul 2022
Holidays: a peak of traffic jams at nearly 480 km

Around 11:45 a.m., 478 km of traffic jams were observed, according to the public service responsible for road information, against 390 km a year earlier.Only the large central-eastern region is experiencing "very difficult" traffic, classified red, according...

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Jul 2022
How the Financial Markets Authority seeks to better control influencers

A simple investment for amazing gains, all promised by the influencer you are used to following and in whom you trust. The picture is perfect: in the world of finance, it is therefore suspect. While the Paris public prosecutor's office estimates the...

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Jul 2022
Fuel prices: what aid, for whom and until when?

For some, they are too low. For others, they benefit the rich too much and harm the planet too much, or simply risk driving the state into bankruptcy as public spending increases. To cushion the rise in fuel prices, many aids have been created by the government....

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Jul 2022
"I'm so scared": the life of Ukrainians in bombed buildings

The 75-year-old woman is the only resident left in her nine-story apartment building in Saltivka, a district of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine that has been bombarded relentlessly since the Russian invasion began in February."I'm so scared because I'm...

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Jul 2022
A Chinese rocket disintegrated over the Indian Ocean

In a statement posted on its official WeChat profile, the Chinese Space Agency gave the coordinates of the impact: in the Sulu Sea, about 57 kilometers off the east coast of the island of Palawan in the Philippines."Most of its devices were destroyed" during...

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Jul 2022
Economic crisis and street anger: will other countries follow Sri Lanka's path?

It's a dizzying number. According to the World Bank, a 1% rise in food prices creates 500,000 additional poor people worldwide. So, given the current inflation figures in most emerging or low-income countries, the survival of millions of people is at...

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Jul 2022
Senegalese elect their deputies, an important test for the president

These legislative elections are a test after the local elections in March, won by the opposition in large cities in this West African country renowned for its stability, such as Dakar, Ziguinchor (south) and Thiès (west).The election takes place in a context...

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Jul 2022
Philippines: Former President Fidel Ramos dies at 94

The frail-looking career soldier, colloquially nicknamed "Eddie" by Filipinos, was president from 1992 to 1998."It is with great sadness that we learn of the passing of former President Fidel V. Ramos," said Trixie Cruz-Angeles, press secretary to President...

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Jul 2022
Health risks: the committee succeeding the Scientific Council created by decree

The names of its members will be "communicated in the coming days", the office of Health Minister François Braun told AFP.It is not excluded that certain members of the Scientific Council – whose mission ends on Sunday with the end of the state of health...

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Jul 2022
Covid-19: containment, passes, tests... What changes with the end of the state of health emergency

The state of health emergency is over. Monday August 1, this exceptional regime born on March 23, 2020 will officially come to an end. It carries with it many measures. Last Tuesday, Parliament finally spoke in favor of its repeal, although the Covid-19 has...

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Jul 2022
In China, owners stop paying their loans in the midst of a real estate crisis

A form of protest, and the symptom of a deep crisis. In China, more and more small owners are refusing to repay their mortgages to protest against developers accused of multiplying interruptions in construction sites in progress, because of their indebtedness....

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Jul 2022
Legendary routes in the Alps bear the brunt of the heat wave

Every summer, hikers and tourists usually throw themselves fervently on the alpine trails in the hope of reaching some of the most beautiful peaks in Europe.But melting glaciers and thawing permafrost, phenomena that scientists say are due to climate change,...

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Jul 2022
War in Ukraine: Zelensky calls for the evacuation of the Donetsk region

This is the first time since the start of the conflict, on February 24, that the Ukrainian president has made such an announcement. This Saturday, in his daily video address, he asked the population living in the Donetsk region to leave the territory. For...

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Jul 2022
In Marseille, swim and paint to color a holiday at the foot of the towers

"I saw people through the living room window so I came." It was first out of curiosity that six-year-old Aliza went down to paint in the courtyard of her building in La Benausse, a long-neglected city in the 14th arrondissement where the poverty rate exceeds...

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Jul 2022
"Strong danger" of fires in the south and rising temperatures everywhere in France

In its bulletin, Météo-France warns of a risk of "very high danger of fires in the Mediterranean zone (Occitanie, Provence and Corsica)", linked to the wind regime (mistral and tramontane) "fairly strong" and to "conditions remaining very hot and dry on...

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Jul 2022
Iraq: Pro-Sadr protesters occupy parliament 'until further notice'

Waving Iraqi flags, portraits of Moqtada Sadr and religious signs, demonstrators crowded the entrance hall of Parliament before entering the hemicycle, waving victory signs and taking selfies in a good atmosphere child, reported AFP journalists on the spot.The...

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Jul 2022
Foot: for his first official outing, Mané offers himself a goal and a Supercup with Bayern

Before heading to Saxony, Bayern coach Julian Nagelsmann had hoped on Friday that his players would send a message to the competition during this Super Cup, against RB Leipzig, one of the applicants who would like to end the decade of domination of Bayern...

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Jul 2022
L2: the Greens already in the red, Bordeaux still in the dark

Conversely, Guingamp, wide winner of Pau (4-0) and Metz, victorious of Amiens (3-0), temporarily took control of the L2, while waiting for Sochaux-Paris FC on Monday.Already penalized with three penalty points for the incidents at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium...

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Kentucky flood death toll still tentative rises to 25

"We have 25 confirmed dead," Andy Beshear told a press conference. "This balance sheet will continue to rise."'I unfortunately believe that we are going to find bodies for weeks,” added the Democratic governor, as torrential rains battered the east...

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Rice, watermelons and tea: in the Iraqi Parliament, pro-Sadr demonstrators take up residence

The thousands of demonstrators who invaded Parliament once again on Saturday have only one motto: "obey" the orders of the influential Shiite political leader.The Sadrist Current has launched a campaign of maximum pressure against its adversaries, rejecting...

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