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Attack on writer Salman Rushdie. International personalities from all sides have denounced an “intolerable” attack and hailed this weekend the “symbol of resistance” represented by Salman Rushdie, target of a fatwa and stabbed on Friday in the United States. In our columns, the Franco-Moroccan writer and friend of Salman Rushdie, Leïla Slimani, calls on governments around the world to put in place “a great knowledge policy”. The Iranian press, for its part, saw in this terrible attack a “plot of the United States”. The assailant, a young American of Lebanese origin, pleaded “not guilty” to “attempted murder” of the writer, who is still hospitalized and whose condition is improving. Read our article.
Precarious lull on the fire front. The Bocéliande, Landiras, Jura, Drôme and Aveyron traffic lights are now “fixed”. The end of the third heat wave of the summer and the arrival of rain brought relative respite this Sunday to the firefighters in the face of the fires. Vigilance is still required, as a stormy wave crosses the country. Read our update on each fire this Sunday.
Deadly fire in a church in Egypt. A fire started by a short circuit in the middle of a mass in a church in a popular district of Cairo killed 41 people on Sunday, mourning the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Read our article.
First shipment of food aid ready to leave Ukraine. The first humanitarian ship chartered by the United Nations to transport Ukrainian cereals was loaded this Sunday with 23,000 tonnes of wheat and is ready to go to sea, announced the Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure. Present at the port of Pivdenny, in the city of Youjné, to witness the loading of the MV Brave Commander, Minister Oleksandre Kubrakov indicated that “the ship will be heading for Africa, Ethiopia being the last country where the cargo of 23,000 tons of wheat will be delivered”.
France ratifies the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO. President Emmanuel Macron signed on Saturday, on behalf of France, the ratification protocol for the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO, which had been adopted by the French Parliament on August 2. Sweden and Finland have renounced their traditional neutrality because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and need the ratification of the thirty member states of the organization to benefit from NATO protection in the event of an attack. Twenty allies would have done it already, but Turkey is threatening to “comes” the process.
Strong explosion on a commercial area in Armenia. Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, was rocked by a powerful explosion on Sunday at the Surmalu wholesale market. “According to preliminary data, an explosion occurred which started a fire”the Ministry of Emergency Situations said in a statement, reporting one death and “twenty injured” according to a first assessment. Read our article.
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Report in the already dry salt marshes. If the drought favors an abundant harvest of salt in Guérande, the season stretches and exhausts both the farmers and the ecosystem of the salt marsh. In the long term, climate change will force everyone to adapt. Read our article.
Lost objects, the great chaos of reunions. 35 million objects are lost every year, and very few find their owners. Entrepreneurs see it as a business in deposits and in tune with the times of the circular economy. Read our survey.
In the Yonne, “people live in a vacuum and want to stay between them”. “Libé” travels the new territories of the National Rally, conquered during the legislative elections. In Mézilles and Charny-Orée-de-Puisaye, the elections were marked by the victory of the extreme right but also by a strong abstention of inhabitants tired of being forgotten at the end of France. Read our report.
On social networks, the promotion of diets by influencers worries. Content creators celebrate their lost pounds and their physical metamorphosis. Publications that question, while eating disorders are on the rise among young people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. Read our article.
In exile, Belarusian dissidents attempt their linguistic revolution. Long denigrated by the regime of Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian language is attracting growing interest from the opposition in exile. A way to counter two centuries of Russification, and to prepare for the post-dictatorship. Read our report.