France is experiencing an 'exceptional” episode of drought, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne recalled on Friday August 5. By announcing the activation of an interministerial crisis unit, the tenant of Matignon evoked the "historic situation that many...

A decision taken in the face of the "historic situation that many territories are going through", announced Matignon. The cell, responsible for centralizing information, will meet at 11:30 a.m. in Beauvau, according to a government source. No decision is...

kyiv sees red. In question: a report published Thursday, August 4 by the NGO Amnesty International, which accuses Ukraine of endangering the lives of civilians in the war with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this report on Thursday...

Beijing on Thursday fired ballistic missiles and deployed its air force and navy in six maritime zones around Taiwan, approaching up to 20 km from the coast and disrupting some of the world's busiest trade routes, to express its anger. after US House...

At the height of the heat wave, the third hitting the country since the beginning of the summer, up to 26 departments had been placed on heat wave orange vigilance, with temperatures which could rise to 40 degrees, first in the Southwest before shifting to...

A former Roman colony which reached its peak two millennia ago under Augustus, the first of the emperors of Rome, Nîmes then called "Colonia Augusta Nemausus" was an important commercial and cultural crossroads, halfway between Rome and Spain.Twenty centuries...

These symptoms include "abdominal pain, difficulty and pain in breathing, muscle aches, ageusia or anosmia (loss of taste or smell: editor's note), tingling, discomfort in the throat, hot flashes or cold, heaviness in the arms or legs as well as general...

"I never imagined that this would happen to me because unfortunately the environment in which I grew up in Buenaventura did not give me many opportunities to dream", says with her sweet smile Betty Garcés, 39 years old, met by AFP at the Teatro Colon in...

"The bottle (of mezcal) is a summary of everything we've been doing for years," Sosima says as she paces her plantation of thick, giant, climbing, spiky green leaves - not to be confused with cacti - through the hills of Sola de Vega, in southwestern...

In a report released Thursday after a four-month investigation, Amnesty International accused the Ukrainian military of establishing military bases in schools and hospitals and launching attacks from populated areas, a tactic it says violates the international...

The Danuri orbiter - a contraction of "Dal", which means Moon, and "Nuri" which means enjoy - took off at 0008 GMT on Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, South Korea's science ministry said. . The spacecraft is due to reach orbit of the Moon in December.SpaceX,...

Three weeks after their meeting in Tehran, the Turkish head of state finds his Russian counterpart in Sochi on the Black Sea, on the strength of his recent diplomatic success which favored the international agreement on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports...

Carried by a Falcon 9 rocket from the SpaceX group, the Danuri orbiter (a contraction of "Dal", which means Moon, and "Nuri" which means profit) must arrive near the Moon in mid-December."This is a very important milestone in the history of Korean space exploration,"...

By brandishing the weapon of the nuclear threat last weekend, Vladimir Putin created an influx of worried citizens into pharmacies. The Russian attack, on the night of Thursday March 3 to Friday March 4, of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia,...

Anxiety at the pump. For millions of French motorists, going to the service station has become an object of concern and frustration in recent months. The price of road fuels, in the wake of the continuous increase in oil prices that began in 2021, is part...

"It was the fourth since 1979", counts with a certain fatalism, Michel Mondani, mayon of Mayons, by listing the fires which ravaged his village and the last of which, in August 2021, killed two people in the neighboring town of Grimaud, above the Gulf of...

France is still suffering from heat and drought. July 2022 is "the second driest month of all months combined" in France since the start of measurements in 1958-1959, behind March 1961. The soils are "even drier than they were on the same date in 1976 and...

In the alleys of this vineyard of Mérignac (Gironde), cultivated under the AOC Pessac-Léognan, two wine workers with skin scorched by the sun are busy, a garden hose in their hands.They bring up the rear of a green tractor, generally intended for spreading...

For the first time since independence in 1960 in this West African country renowned for its stability, the party in power loses an absolute majority and will have to rely on other forces in Parliament to pass its laws .The coalition of President Macky Sall...

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced last week the expulsion of this preacher practicing in France, reputed to be close to the Muslim Brotherhood and accused by the French authorities of calls for hatred and violence aimed in particular at the Jewish...

"For many years, the CGT Eurenco has denounced the dangerous working conditions, the dilapidated condition of the premises ... without being heard or listened to," said the CGT-Eurenco in a press release."For any other tragedy to be avoided, it is time for...

One of the officers is accused of "excessive use of force", the other three of having "falsified" the search warrant at the origin of the operation, said Minister Merrick Garland during a press conference ."I've been waiting for this for 874 days," responded...

The 57-year-old man, in the sights of Gérald Darmanin who signed the expulsion order himself on July 29, is accused by the French authorities of having launched calls for hatred and violence aimed in particular the Jewish community.The Minister of the Interior...

'A rescue at the limit of the impossible”. This is how "Salvamento Marítimo" (the Spanish sea rescue service) described on Facebook the rescue, on Tuesday, of the 62-year-old sailor from Marseille, whose boat had capsized the day before in the Atlantic,...