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War in Ukraine: a ravaged children’s hospital in Mariupol. This Wednesday in Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine, an explosion caused very heavy damage to the site of a children’s hospital. Local authorities speak of at least 17 injured adults. A balance sheet which does not include, at the present time, “no child”. A ceasefire had however been planned between Russians and Ukrainians to allow the evacuation of civilians through a humanitarian corridor. But by midday, Ukrainian authorities said the city remained “always under siege”. Read our article and follow our live.
In Zhytomyr, “there are Russian raids every day”. Of school number 25, in the city center of Zhytomyr, 150 kilometers west of Kyiv (Kiev), only pieces of its concrete frame remain. Located about sixty kilometers from Russian troops, the strategic city in western Ukraine is targeted from the sky, forcing the affected inhabitants to hide in shelters. Our report.
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray: eight to thirteen years in prison and “another path” for the three defendants present. The special assize court of Paris pronounced this Wednesday a sentence of eight years in prison against Yassine Sebaihia, ten years for Farid Khelil and thirteen years for Jean-Philippe Jean Louis at the trial of the attack of Saint-Etienne-du- Rouvray (Seine-Maritime), in the absence of the perpetrators of the murder of Father Hamel in his church on July 26, 2016, killed the same day by the police. Read our article.
Are the 5,000 euros per month that Marine Le Pen really serves to reimburse her “expenses”? The candidate of the National Rally continues to receive the same “remuneration” from her party when she is no longer its president. His training, in debt, found a solution to save substantial social security contributions. Read our article.
More than 600 reports of sexual violence in French sport in two years. The ministerial unit which identifies sexual violence in sport recorded more than 600 reports of sexual violence after the revelations of skater Sarah Abitbol in early 2020. In total, 655 people are implicated, including 97% men, in the framework of 610 cases in total, concerning 54 sports federations, as of the end of December 2021. Read our article.
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War in Ukraine: where is Vladimir Putin hiding? Unlike his Ukrainian counterpart, the Russian president shows very little. According to several media, he would have left Moscow to take refuge in one of his many residences or in a bunker, while his partner and his children would be safe in Switzerland. Read our article.
The “Endurance”, mythical British ship of the Shackleton expedition, found in Antarctica. This Wednesday, members of the Endurance22 expedition announced that they had found the wreckage of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, which had been sought after since it sank in 1915. Read our article.
Yvan Colonna and the cynicism of the State. Tuesday evening, Matignon announced the lifting of the status of “particularly reported detainee” of Yvan Colonna. A decision demanded by his family for the transfer of the independence activist sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination in 1998 of the prefect Claude Erignac. But which comes at a time when he is between life and death, after his attack by a radical Islamist. Read our post.
The first transplant patient with a pig’s heart dies two months later. The world’s first patient to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after his operation, the hospital where he was treated announced on Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died on Tuesday after his condition “started to deteriorate several days ago”, said in a press release the hospital of the University of Maryland, in the United States. Read our article.
At the funeral of Jean-Pierre Pernaut, “we came to say goodbye to a member of the family”. Alongside celebrities, several hundred anonymous people paid tribute to the star presenter of TF1 who died last week during a tribute in a Parisian church. Read our report.