In Ukraine, the bombing of a building in Dnipro left 30 dead
Rescuers were busy this weekend to try to find survivors in the ruins of a building in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine, hit the day before by a bombardment whose toll is estimated at 30 dead, 75 injured and “more than thirty” missing persons. According to the Ukrainian presidency, between 100 and 200 people are homeless as a result of this attack, and some 1,700 inhabitants of Dnipro were deprived of electricity and heating.
Attacks were also reported on Saturday in several regions of Ukraine, including in kyiv, in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Mykolaiv. In the South, in Kryvyi Rih, one person was killed and another was injured in the destruction of apartment buildings. Russian attacks have also hit energy infrastructure in Kharkiv and Lviv, according to Ukrainian authorities. Electricity cuts were decided in most of the oblasts after the last bombardments, specified the Minister of Energy.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement on Saturday that he had pledged to supply Challenger 2 tanks. ” in the next weeks “ fourteen heavy tanks to Ukraine. The announcement caused Russian diplomacy to react, which considered that this shipment of arms was not going to “in no way to accelerate the end of military hostilities, but only to intensify them, causing new victims”.
In China, the authorities recognize 60,000 deaths linked to Covid-19
For the first time since the lifting of restrictions linked to the zero Covid policy in China, the country’s health authorities released a report on Saturday of the number of deaths linked to the disease on national territory. Between December 8, 2022 and January 12, 2023, 59,938 people died from the epidemic, either directly from respiratory failure associated with Covid-19 (for 5,503 of them), or from comorbidity (for the other 54,435). ).
The information was released by Jiao Yahui on behalf of the National Health Commission and does not take into account deaths recorded outside medical facilities. Xi Jinping had decided to end the zero Covid policy in the country at the beginning of December, against a backdrop of social protest after major health restrictions in several regions of the country.
Iran executes British dual national accused of spying
Iran announced on Saturday the execution by hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, an Iranian-British accused of espionage. Without providing evidence, Tehran accused Ali Reza Akbari, who worked in the Iranian interior ministry, of being a spy for MI6, the British intelligence agency. His execution took place three days after the announcement by the Iranian justice of his death sentence.
This execution is a “barbaric act” who “will not go unanswered”, reacted the British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, on Saturday. The United Kingdom has announced that it has placed the Attorney General of Iran, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, under sanctions to underline the ” disgust “ of London sparked by the execution of Ali Reza Akbari. France, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has “condemned in the strongest terms the execution in Iran of Ali Reza Akbari”. From the same source, it was specified that at the request of the minister the charge d’affaires of the Iranian embassy in Paris had been summoned again on Saturday.
In Peru, the government declares a state of emergency
The Peruvian government on Saturday declared a state of emergency in the capital, Lima, and in several other regions due to demonstrations against the President, Dina Boluarte, which have left at least 42 people dead in the country for five years. weeks. This measure, in force for thirty days, authorizes the army to intervene to maintain order and leads to the suspension of several constitutional rights such as freedom of movement and assembly and the inviolability of the home, according to a decree published Saturday evening in the official newspaper, A Peruvian man.
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In addition to the capital, the departments of Cuzco and Puno (South) are subject to a state of emergency, as is the port of Callao, next to Lima, among others. More than a hundred roadblocks blocked traffic across Peru on Saturday, mainly in the south, the epicenter of the protest, but also around Lima. The authorities, however, reopened on Saturday the international airport of Cuzco, vital for the Peruvian tourist sector.
The General Inspectorate for Sport issues a report to the courts for “sexist outrage” about Noël Le Graët
According to information from Mondethe mission of the General Inspectorate of Education, Sport and Research, responsible for conducting an audit of the French Football Federation (FFF), issued a report to the courts on Friday about Christmas Le Graët under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure, which imposes “for any constituted authority, any officer or civil servant, in the exercise of his functions”, to report crimes or misdemeanors of which he is aware. The same day, the inspectors informed the president of the FFF of this report.
The hearing of agent Sonia Souid, on January 10, by the inspectors led them to want to report facts likely to be criminally reprehensible, qualified as“sexist outrage”, to the public prosecutor of Paris. With an uncovered face, M.me Souid reported on January 9 in The team, as well as at the microphone of BFM-TV, a series of urgent and tendentious calls, messages and invitations to dinner from the patriarch of French football. After this hearing, several former employees of the FFF and its general manager, Florence Hardouin, provided additional information to the inspectors, who, before this interrogation, had not been aware of any elements justifying the issuance of a report. to justice. They had so far heard about sixty people.
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