The Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, visited an Ehpad on Friday morning in Vienne. JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEK / AFP The heat wave is spreading, now affecting almost all of France, and two additional departments were placed on Friday, June 17, on red alert, i.e. 14 in total in the southwestern third of the country: Vendée, Deux-Sèvres … Read more
To not miss any African news, subscribe to the newsletter of the World Africa from this link. Every Saturday at 6 a.m., find a week of news and debates covered by the editorial staff of the World Africa. Ghanaian police officers from a counter-terrorism unit train in Accra, October 2016. RUTH MCDOWALL / AFP Is … Read more
The fifth wave has started and the corona numbers have been rising again for three days. Yesterday the RKI reported an incidence of 220.3 (new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within 7 days), on Friday it was 215. Reason: the highly contagious Omikron mutant. The statistician Christian Hesse (61) on BILD am SONNTAG: “The peak of … Read more
Washington / Moscow – Can this phone call defuse the Ukraine conflict? In light of the tensions surrounding Ukraine, US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak on the phone on Thursday. A US government official said on Wednesday that Biden wanted to offer Putin a “diplomatic path forward”. “But we are … Read more
VACCINE PASS. As the end of year holidays approach, the government is increasing the pressure on unvaccinated people with the next transformation of the health pass into a vaccination pass which will be discussed in early 2022 in Parliament. A new measure which “is a disguised form of vaccine obligation”, indicated Olivier Véran, Minister of … Read more
A wave of robberies is plaguing the parish of Nogueira, in Braga, residents revealed to O MINHO, on Saturday, the day the couple who own a small supermarket in that locality were the victim of a frustrated robbery with a large knife. Palmira Macedo, resident in Nogueira, told O MINHO that he doesn’t remember so … Read more
At a Costco store in Miami on September 28, 2021. JOE RAEDLE / AFP Optimism has subsided slightly. In its forecasts published Tuesday, October 12, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects global growth of 5.9% in 2021 (the institution estimated the increase to 6% in July), then 4.9% in 2022. In a few months, the … Read more
From November 1, motorists in certain mountainous areas will have to equip their vehicle with chains or winter tires for the entire winter. In total, 48 departments are concerned, but not throughout their territory. In detail, these new obligations apply to light vehicles, utility vehicles, camper vans, heavy goods vehicles and coaches in certain areas … Read more
“It may have a negative impact on beneficiaries’ access to health care”: this is how the Medical Association faces the new price list and rules for the ADSE free regime, which enters into force this Wednesday. “The Order of Doctors, after hearing the National Council for the Practice of Private and Conventional Medicine, publicly expresses … Read more
Installation of the exhibition “The Ameriguns” by Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti, during the Visa pour l’image photojournalism festival, August 25, in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales). RAYMOND ROIG / AFP The large public order promised to help photographers is taking shape. The Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, had announced it on May 5, during the Estates General of … Read more