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Jul 2022
Drought and water restrictions: what are the different alert thresholds?

Since Wednesday, Haute-Marne and Hautes-Alpes have reached the "crisis" threshold, the highest level on the scale of drought alerts in France. They join the 44 other departments already placed under this status, while 38 others are on "enhanced alert" and...

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Jul 2022
Gabonese "ill-gotten gains": 5 children of Omar Bongo indicted in France

Among them are Pascaline Bongo, 66, eldest daughter and former chief of staff of her father, Omar Denis Jr Bongo, 28, also grandson of Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Jeanne Matoua, 38, and Joseph Matoua, 40 years old, the same source told AFP,...

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Jul 2022
PPDA accused of rape: seriality and prescription at the heart of the investigation

The former star presenter of the TF1 television news, 74, is accused by around thirty women of rape, sexual assault and / or harassment. He vigorously denies them all and filed a complaint in return for slanderous denunciation.Several investigations have...

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Jul 2022
Covid-19: the decline of the 7th wave is confirmed, hospitalizations still high

"The decrease in the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 was confirmed on national territory" in the week of July 18 to 24, but the indicators remain "however at high levels in all regions and age groups" , observes the health agency.At the hospital, 'a drop in...

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Jul 2022
40 years ago, the worst road tragedy killed 46 children

Along the "Highway of the Sun", a small path descends towards a commemorative plaque where the names and ages of the 53 dead are listed, including seven from the same family. 10 years old, 8, 7... The youngest was 5 years old.Baby and smiling faces had made...

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Jul 2022
Ukraine celebrates its tank-towing farmers with a stamp

This 1970s MT-LB was abandoned at the end of March by Russian forces after their withdrawal from northeastern Ukraine, 30 kilometers from the border between the two countries.The vehicle was found by smiling tractor driver Vitali Denysenko, with a mischievous...

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Jul 2022
War in Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky denounces a "terror of missiles"

In his Thursday night video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked "the US senators who unanimously approved the resolution calling on the US State Department to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism". According to the Congress...

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Jul 2022
For homosexuals in Senegal, a life prevented

At only 20 years old, Abdou* was threatened with death and suffered ostracism from his family. He bears witness to an almost impossible life in Senegal and the social exclusion of homosexuals in his country."The situation is getting more and more serious,"...

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Jul 2022
The French economy bloomed again in the second quarter, but inflation still threatens

The first estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter, published Friday by INSEE, will certainly have to be confirmed at the end of August.But while growth in the second quarter was expected at 0.2% by the Banque de France and 0.25% by...

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28
Jul 2022
The Pope in the Arctic for the last leg of his "penitential trip" to Canada

The 85-year-old pontiff will make a final speech in the morning in Quebec City before flying to Iqaluit, capital and largest city in the territory of Nunavut.In this place of the Arctic archipelago accessible only by plane, whose name means "place of fish",...

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Jul 2022
F1: crucial weekend for Leclerc in Hungary before the holidays

The Monegasque from Scuderia Ferrari would have hoped to have a better summer than the one that is emerging. He knows he lost big in France, when he was leading the race, after going off the track due to pilot error.If he remains second in the championship,...

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Jul 2022
In Hong Kong, drug 'mules' fill women's prisons

In Hong Kong, a quarter of those in detention are women. A proportion unparalleled in the world, fueled by the many "mules" who, mainly from poor backgrounds in Latin America, have tried to smuggle drugs into the territory, often under duress or after being...

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Jul 2022
Crossover of the summer holidays: the longest day for the SNCF

The level of reservations for the summer is already 10% higher than that, also a record, of the summer of 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said."We are doing as usual, but the trains are fuller and we are emphasizing the distribution of luggage...

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Jul 2022
USA: at least eight dead after "devastating" floods in Kentucky

'This is going to turn out to be the worst flooding in recent history, devastating and deadly,” Governor Andy Beshear said, as the number of missing is unknown and heavy rain is expected through Friday. ."For now, I believe I can confirm at least eight...

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Jul 2022
In Quebec, the pope comes up against the high expectations of the natives

In the morning, shortly before the beginning of the mass of reconciliation, in Sainte-Anne de Beaupré, two natives unfurled a banner on which one could read: "Revoke the doctrine", in front of the altar and a few meters from François.Beyond the apologies...

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Jul 2022
Guinea: demonstrations against the junta paralyze Conakry, one dead according to the organizers

The authorities have not confirmed the death during these banned demonstrations in Conakry, carried out at the initiative of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), an important coalition of parties, trade unions and organizations of...

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Jul 2022
War or not, Ukrainians are rushing to get married

"At first I thought it was thunder, but the sky was clear. I realized it was a bombardment," says the 31-year-old designer.Shocked by the destruction but determined to continue their nuptials, Tetiana and her fiancé Taras wed as planned, six hours later."Initially,...

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Jul 2022
US economy shrinks again, fueling recession fears

The contraction in GDP is 0.9% at an annualized rate, a measure favored by the United States, which compares to the previous quarter and then projects the evolution over the whole year, according to figures released Thursday by the Commerce Department.Weak...

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Jul 2022
Death of Yvan Colonna: disciplinary proceedings against the former director of Arles prison and an agent

The supervisor in charge of the wing where the Corsican separatist was located, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, showed a "clear lack of vigilance" by remaining "without any reason away" from the place of...

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Jul 2022
"Mixing of races": Orban defends "a cultural point of view", Washington condemns

"It sometimes happens that I speak in a way that can be misunderstood, but I have asked the Chancellor (Austrian Karl Nehammer) to please put the information in a cultural context," he said in Vienna, where he was visiting. "In Hungary, these expressions...

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Jul 2022
TotalEnergies: profit more than doubled in 2Q thanks to hydrocarbon prices

This profit was made despite a new provision of 3.5 billion dollars linked to the potential impact of international sanctions on the value of its stake in the Russian group Novatek, the group said in a press release.Excluding these exceptional items, adjusted...

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Jul 2022
Tariff shield, reactors shut down... EDF records major losses

Jean-Bernard Lévy has undoubtedly seen better days. This Thursday, July 28, the Chairman and CEO of EDF unveiled the company's financial results for the first half of 2022. A few months before its renationalisation, the company's losses are colossal....

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Jul 2022
Ehpad: Orpea is trying to convince its shareholders that it has learned the lessons of the crisis

The shareholders of Orpea gathered in a general meeting in Paris for the first time since the publication of the shocking book "Les Fossoyeurs" which seriously damaged the model, the practices and the image of a group present in 23 countries and which manages...

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Jul 2022
Assassination of Yvan Colonna: "disciplinary proceedings" against two agents of the prison of Arles

Matignon added that the Prime Minister had "decided to follow all the recommendations" of the report of the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), seized after the attack by a radicalized fellow prisoner of the Corsican independence movement, who was serving...

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