Have you picked up the news? We summarize the main information of the last two days.
In Sri Lanka, the president flees and agrees to leave office
The President of Sri Lanka, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled his palace in Colombo on Saturday July 9, under popular pressure. As a crowd of protesters, demanding his resignation, entered his official residence, he announced his intention to leave office within the next week, according to remarks reported by the Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Abeywardana. “To ensure a peaceful transition, the president said he would step down on July 13”he said on television.
The Prime Minister has also made it known that he intends to resign. On Sunday, the vagueness remained in the country. Sri Lankan opposition political parties have come together to agree on a new government.
As Europe prepares for a winter without Russian gas, Elisabeth Borne plans targeted aid after the end of the tariff shield
The European Union (EU) and the governments of the member states are preparing for a complete cut in Russian gas supplies this winter. According to a statement by the Minister of Finance, Bruno le Maire, this is the scenario deemed the most likely in current projections.
The season, in this case, could be tough, since before the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, decided to invade Ukraine on February 24, Russian gas represented 40% of EU imports.
In this context, governments are working on quota plans that organize the management of any shortages in the various industrial sectors. The European Commission is trying to implement a “emergency demand reduction plan”.
In France, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, traveling to Aix-en-Provence, announced that the tariff shield on energy prices could be replaced next year by more targeted aid for the French. modest.
War in Ukraine: Russia continues its strikes, kyiv accuses it of burning cereal fields
The war threatens the harvests planned for this summer, which could aggravate the world food crisis. Odessa region administration spokesman Sergey Bratchuk shared photos taken by local police on Telegram showing burned fields. ” Due to incendiary shell fire, large-scale fires occur every day in fields and forests throughout the region. The Russian troops, on the other hand, do not allow the inhabitants to put out the fires. They destroy grain stores and equipment. »
On the ground, the bombardments continue. A strike ripped open a residential building in Chassiv Yar on Saturday evening, killing at least 15 people, Ukrainian authorities said. Twenty-four people are still under the rubble, including a child, while five others have been rescued, according to relief. Russian missiles killed two people and injured three others on Saturday in the southern Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, according to regional authorities.
“Uber Files”: revelations about the secret “deal” between Uber and Emmanuel Macron in Bercy
Internal company documents, analyzed by The world and his partners in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), show how, between 2014 and 2016, the Minister of the Economy worked behind the scenes for the VTC company, which was trying to impose market deregulation and confronting government hostility.
These “Uber Files”, tens of thousands of emails, presentations, spreadsheets and PDF documents written between 2013 and 2017, shed a particularly harsh light on these Roaring Twenties, punctuated by violence during the taxi protests, during which the he American company has used all the revenue from lobbying to try to obtain deregulation of the market, in France as elsewhere.
The “Uber Files” also reveal how the Californian group, determined to impose itself by a fait accompli and, if necessary, by operating illegally, has implemented practices deliberately playing with the limits of the law, or which may amount to judicial obstruction of the investigations of which he was the subject.
At the baccalaureate, a success rate of 91.1%, down 2.8 points compared to 2021
In total, 664,300 candidates were accepted for the 2022 baccalaureate after the remedial session, i.e. a success rate of 91.1%, a figure down 2.8 points compared to June 2021, announced on Saturday, the Ministry of Education.
After two sessions disrupted by the health crisis, this first edition of the “Blanquer tray”organized under almost normal conditions, resulted in a success rate for the general baccalaureate of 96.1% (− 1.5 points compared to 2021), a success rate for the technological baccalaureate of 90.6% (− 3 .5 points) and a professional baccalaureate success rate of 82.3% (− 4.5 points), detailed Rue de Grenelle in a press release.
But also :
UK. The race to succeed Boris Johnson is on.
Japan. Ruling party given winner of senatorial elections, two days after former prime minister’s assassination
Tour de France. The threat of Covid-19 eclipses Wout Van Aert’s victory in Lausanne, and forces Guillaume Martin to retire.
Rugby. The Blues, winners of Japan, end the season undefeated.
Wimbledon. Elena Rybakina won her first Grand Slam title, and Novak Djokovic wins a seventh crown
Indonesia. In Bali, Antony Blinken warns Wang Yi about Chinese pressure on Taiwan.
Mexico. Ex-president Echeverria, prosecuted for the “dirty war” against opponents, died