Have you picked up the news? We summarize the main information of the last two days.
- War in Ukraine: Daria Douguina, daughter of an ideologue close to Putin, killed in the explosion of a car
Daria Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian ideologue close to the Kremlin and sometimes described as “Putin’s Brain”, died on the night of Saturday to Sunday August 21, in a car bomb attack near Moscow, announced Russian investigators, quoted by the national media and news agencies. A relative of the 29-year-old young woman, Andrei Krasnov, said that the vehicle she was driving belonged to the young woman’s father, who was the primary target of this attack. kyiv has denied any involvement in the explosion.
The kyiv authorities also announced on Sunday the ban on all public gatherings from August 22 to 25 in the capital, while August 24 marks the anniversary of the country’s independence from the USSR, in 1991.
The governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synehoubov, for his part, announced on Saturday a long curfew, the night of August 22, then from the evening of August 23 to the morning of August 25. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Saturday evening that Russia could “to do something particularly heinous [et] cruel » next week, on the occasion of the Ukrainian National Day.
- Gérald Darmanin promises 3,000 “green” gendarme posts to fight fires
In an interview at Sunday newspaper (JDD) of August 21, Gérald Darmanin announces that he wants to launch a “green police” to fight fires caused by arsonists. This would allow“improve the work of judicial investigation”he explains. “The objective is that, in each gendarmerie brigade, there are gendarmes trained in attacks on ecology”assures the Minister of the Interior to JDDrecalling that “nine out of ten fires are of human origin, voluntary or involuntary”. This summer, “there were between eighty and one hundred and twenty outbreaks of fire per day in our country” et “To date, we have made twenty-six arrests of suspected arsonists”underlines the Minister.
With these new positions, the objective is to “Massively strengthen the resources of the Central Office for the fight against damage to the environment”, he adds. Created in 2004 and directed by a general of the gendarmerie, it was notably cosaisi, in July, to investigate the great fire of Landiras in Gironde.
- The Minister of Justice calls for an investigation after the organization of an activity inspired by “Koh Lanta” in the prison of Fresnes
Eric Dupond-Moretti, announced on Saturday August 20 on Twitterhave “ordered an investigation” administrative after the organization, within the prison of Fresnes, of tests inspired by the television game “Koh Lanta”, for the benefit of associations. This event, called “Kohlanness”, was held on July 27, within the Val-de-Marne establishment, but a video, broadcast on Friday August 19, in particular on YouTube, immediately sparked a lively controversy.
Three teams – inmates, guards and residents of Fresnes – competed in various tests: questionnaire, karting, mime or tug of war over a swimming pool. The Minister of Justice tweeted: “After the shocking images from Fresnes prison, I immediately ordered an investigation so that all the light could be shed. The fight against recidivism goes through reintegration, but certainly not through karting! »
- New strike movements in the UK
After three consecutive days of strikes having disrupted transport, particularly rail, it is the turn of the port of Felixstowe to be affected. A strike scheduled to last eight days began on Sunday August 21 at the UK’s largest cargo port, the latest in a series of industrial actions affecting many sectors to demand better wages in the face of inflation record.
This is the first strike since 1989 for this port located in the east of England, which handles around four million containers a year. Some 1,900 members of the Unite union, including crane operators, machine operators and dockworkers, have walked off the job demanding wage hikes amid the UK’s cost of living crisis. Inflation reached 10.1% over one year in July and could exceed 13% in October, the highest level in a G7 country.
- Sports: the French medalists in European competitions
Great hope of French mountain biking, Loana Lecomte conquered, at 23, her first major title, Saturday August 20, by being crowned European cross-country champion in the pouring rain in Munich ahead of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, for a double French. The Haut-Savoyarde took advantage of a mechanical incident by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, known as “PFP”, alone in the lead in the mud of the Olympiapark after a third of the race, to fly away to victory.
In Munich, where the European Athletics Championships were held, Rénelle Lamote came second in the 800 meters final, while the men’s team won bronze in the 4 × 400 meters.
Diplomacy. Emmanuel Macron plans a trip to Algeria from August 25 to 27
Somalia. At least 21 civilians killed in hotel siege by jihadists in Mogadishu
Canada. Michelle O’Bonsawin will become the first Indigenous justice to serve on the nation’s Supreme Court
Afghanistan. At least 20 dead and 30 injured in flash floods
Turkey. Thirty-four people are killed in two road accidents