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Aug 2022
Who are the ShinyHunters, these "prolific" hackers suspected of operating from France?

Originally, being a "ShinyHunters" is nothing criminal. The name denotes a type of player from Pokémon, the cult Japanese franchise. But in recent years and the arrest of one of its alleged representatives, the term evokes a completely different community,...

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09
Aug 2022
Political storm in the United States after the search of Trump's home

Never had a former tenant of the White House been worried by justice in this way.Does the federal police search have to do with the many boxes that Donald Trump took with him when he left the White House in January 2021? Is it related to the investigation...

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09
Aug 2022
Cold wave, price records and eco-gestures... The electricity situation is still very tense

With a lot of braziers and candles, French winegrowers fought all Sunday night against the cold snap. They are not the only ones to suffer the brunt of the brutal drop in temperatures, and this icy night, the coldest in a month of April since 1947. In a heat-sensitive...

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09
Aug 2022
Spain begins to equip its police with body cameras

The first police officers to be equipped were on Monday, the cameras to be "provided gradually to all police officers", the Spanish Interior Ministry told AFP without further details, in particular on the duration of the stay. process.These cameras will be...

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09
Aug 2022
In Kentucky, Biden is trying to bring hope to flood victims — and the country

Bad weather has claimed at least 37 lives here. The presidential convoy passed through streets ravaged by the violence of the elements, with smashed trees, school buses strewn on the ground like toys and pieces of houses scattered to the four winds.But after...

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09
Aug 2022
Caregivers facing the wave of the coronavirus: diving into an intensive care unit

24 hours a day, the cameras installed in the rooms of the intensive care unit watch over the patients of Covid-19. Two patients have died since the outbreak began.Xosé Bouzas pour L'ExpressMost patients are "curarized": their muscles are paralyzed by...

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09
Aug 2022
Taiwan: Kinmen, the buffer island that the Chinese army has never managed to conquer

Military maneuvers continue around Taiwan. The Taiwan army conducted this Tuesday, August 9, a live ammunition artillery exercise in Pingtung County (south) simulating the defense of the island against a Chinese invasion that the island accuses Beijing of...

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09
Aug 2022
Trial of ex-football star Ryan Giggs: the "alarm signals" perceived by his ex-girlfriend

The 48-year-old former player, who won two Champions Leagues in a Manchester United jersey, and until recently coached the Wales national team, was in the dock on the second day of his trial before a court in Manchester.He pleads not guilty to the violence...

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09
Aug 2022
An operation attempted in the evening to extract and save the beluga

'An operation to transport the beluga lost in the Seine will be attempted today in the evening”, told the media the prefecture of Eure, which is piloting the operation to save the animal usually evolving in cold waters.According to the prefecture,...

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09
Aug 2022
Rafael Grossi (IAEA): "SMRs will allow developing countries to access nuclear power"

Nuclear power, a matter for rich countries? Not for long. While a dozen countries currently concentrate 80% of nuclear production worldwide, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, believes that the development of technologies...

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09
Aug 2022
Sylvie Bermann: "Most major countries are relaunching nuclear programs"

China, United Kingdom, Russia...during her long career as an ambassador, Sylvie Bermann was posted in three of the most dynamic countries on the nuclear issue today. China, for example, partner of France on the Taishan power station, plans to build more than...

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09
Aug 2022
In Gaza, three days of bombardments and 16 dead children

"It was a Friday like any other, she was happy. She wanted to go to the park with her aunt," says Ms. Kaddoum, 27.But that day, faced with an "imminent threat", Israel launched a "preemptive attack" in the Gaza Strip against the Palestinian armed group Islamic...

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09
Aug 2022
With the drought, milk producers face the risk of shortages

"I have about fifty cows, but I will have to sell at least a third of them." This year, Bertrand Besson, milk producer in the Loire, has no choice: he is forced to reduce the number of animals on his farm to reduce his expenses. Faced with the current climatic...

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09
Aug 2022
Fire between Aveyron and Lozère: 3,000 people evacuated

Leaving at the end of the day Monday from Massegros, in Lozère, the fire, started by an agricultural machine, then spread to Mostuéjouls, in Aveyron, noted an AFP correspondent.People were evacuated as a precaution from the villages of Rivière-sur-Tarn...

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09
Aug 2022
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

"He died on the evening of August 5," she said on the phone, adding that Issey Miyake's funeral had already taken place in the presence "only of relatives", in accordance with his wishes. There are no plans for a public ceremony, the source said.The...

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09
Aug 2022
Beluga whale extraction promises to be "out of the ordinary", according to the Marineland team

News of the animal "is correct" on Tuesday morning, said Isabelle Brasseur, one of the team members.The scenario of the extraction operation is in place: "this morning we have something that holds water. We will present this plan to the people who will help...

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09
Aug 2022
More than 3,000 people evacuated in Aveyron due to a fire

Leaving at the end of the day Monday from Massegros, in the neighboring department of Lozère, the fire, started by an agricultural machine, then spread towards the village of Mostuéjouls, in Aveyron, noted an AFP correspondent.Late Tuesday morning, the...

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09
Aug 2022
West Bank: 3 Palestinians killed including a military leader in an Israeli raid

According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, three Palestinians were killed during the operation in central Nablus, during which fire was exchanged between Palestinian activists and Israeli forces.The Israeli army has reported two Palestinian deaths: Ibrahim...

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09
Aug 2022
Why the FBI's Search of Trump's Residence Isn't (So) Surprising

"They even broke into my safe!". Donald Trump is outraged. The former American president announced on Monday August 8 that his famous Florida residence, Mar-a-Lago, had been 'searched” by the federal police (FBI). "Our nation is living in dark times,...

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09
Aug 2022
War in Ukraine: nearly 80,000 Russian soldiers killed or injured, according to the Pentagon

Nearly 80,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, Pentagon number three Colin Kahl said Monday (August 8). He also acknowledged that the Ukrainian forces had also suffered heavy losses, without quantifying...

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09
Aug 2022
Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine accusations

The Khayyam remote sensing satellite was launched by a Soyuz rocket from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome at 0552 GMT, according to images broadcast live by Russian space agency Roscosmos.The satellite, named in honor of the Persian poet and scholar Omar...

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09
Aug 2022
Marriage and procession do not always go well together

At the end of July, a "stunned" family finds itself surrounded by a dozen large cars on the town hall square in Saint-Denis: a wedding procession has degenerated into an urban rodeo, with luxury cars specially rented for the occasion."A tragedy was narrowly...

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08
Aug 2022
The BnF's video game collection, a "cultural heritage in its own right"

To access the video game treasures of the BnF, you have to go to one of the four towers of the François-Mitterrand library in Paris. With the imperative escort of a curator to cross the various security checks.Amid the gramophones and jukeboxes of the Charles...

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08
Aug 2022
South Korea: seven dead in record floods

"At least seven people have died in the Seoul metropolitan area...seven others are missing due to heavy rain at 7:30 a.m. this morning," an interior ministry official told AFP. from Seoul.Authorities warned of more rain as rescue workers tried to clear the...

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