United States. It’s an election that might seem innocuous… and yet. Wyoming voters are being asked to vote for the Republican candidate who will be running in the upcoming midterm elections. The population has the choice between Liz Cheney and Harriet Hageman, a 59-year-old lawyer supported by Donald Trump. And this is precisely where the shoe pinches. For several months, the representative of this state in the midwestern United States has co-chaired the commission responsible for investigating the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Since then, she has been disowned by her party and Donald Trump is actively doing campaign against it.
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Air traffic. As the summer season progresses, it’s time to present the Aéroports de Paris group’s traffic figures for the month of July. These figures are eagerly awaited since this season is the first, since the appearance of Covid-19, not to be affected by health restriction measures at the borders. At the same time, several social movements affected Paris airports, in a context of lack of manpower, at the beginning of the summer.
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Fires. While France is experiencing one of its worst seasons in terms of forest fires, a young suspected arsonist is on trial this Tuesday, August 16 in immediate appearance in the Ardennes. The defendant is tried for “destruction of property belonging to others by the effect of a means likely to create a danger for people”. He faces up to ten years in prison. On August 14, he was arrested near a fire that had consumed a bare plot of land as well as a hedge. However, in the context of drought that we know, this act – if the young man is found guilty – could be severely punished.
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2024 Olympics. Polynesia and the Organizing Committee of the Paris 2024 Olympics sign this Tuesday, in the presence of Tony Estanguet, the conventions for the organization of the Olympic surfing events, on the wave of Teahupoo in Tahiti. Teahupoo, the site planned for the surfing events of the 2024 Olympic Games, is a small village on the Tahitian peninsula, quiet and green. Access to the site is via a footbridge that crosses over a river. Access to the place of the event should be restricted to what is strictly necessary to preserve the environment, assured the local authorities.
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Brazil. Outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro launches his official campaign on Tuesday. Less than two months before the presidential election, the head of state continues to question the reliability of the electronic ballot box system, fueling fears that he will not recognize the result in the event of defeat. On August 11, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in São Paulo to “defend democracy”, a movement supported by lawyers, trade unions and employers’ organizations in the face of repeated attacks by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro against the institutions.
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