News
Ukraine demands more weapons from NATO, exile in the East. After calling on its population to flee the eastern regions of the country, now priority targets for the Kremlin, Ukraine is asking the Atlantic alliance for more weapons this Thursday morning. As Russian forces bombarded several towns, the governor of the Lugansk region neighboring Donbass said he had “managed to evacuate more than 1,200 people” Wednesday. This official specified that these evacuations had been carried out in the absence of any ceasefire and under very difficult conditions due to the intense bombardments of the Russian forces. Find the main news of the war in Ukraine in our live of the day.
The 2nd booster dose open to people aged 60 and over. Against the backdrop of a slight drop in the rate of contamination, the second booster dose of vaccine against Covid-19 will be open to people aged 60 and over, whose last injection dates back more than six months, announced this Thursday morning the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. “We will be able to open this 2nd booster dose for French people aged 60 and over if they are six months away from their last booster injection”, without it becoming mandatory, said the minister on RTL radio. Until now, this dose was reserved for people aged 80 and over, an announcement made by Jean Castex in mid-March in the face of the rebound of the pandemic.
Elon Musk inaugurates his new Tesla mega-factory in Texas. Between the thousands of invitations and the cult dedicated to Elon Musk by his fans, the inauguration of the new Tesla factory in Austin this Thursday looks like a star concert, in the now established tradition of the whimsical billionaire who celebrates the growth outside standard of its company and its establishment in Texas, far from the Californian culture. It is Tesla’s fifth “mega-factory”, after those in Nevada, New York, Shanghai and Berlin. These factories produce cars, but also equipment and batteries on a very large scale.
Beginning of the 2022 campaign… for income tax declaration. French households can start from this Thursday to declare, for almost all of them online, their income for 2021, with some new features such as the revaluation of the mileage scale decided in the face of rising fuel prices. Households that cannot make a declaration online and therefore still complete a paper declaration will have until midnight May 19 to return it. For those who declare their income online, the deadline ranges from May 24 to June 8, depending on their department of residence.
To be continued today
UN vote on the fate of Russia. The UN General Assembly will proceed this Thursday at 10 a.m. local time (4 p.m. in France) to a vote on a Western request for the suspension of Russia from the Human Rights Council because of the invasion of the ‘Ukraine. For Russia to be suspended from the institution sitting in Geneva, a majority of 2/3 of the countries who will vote for and against during the ballot to which the 193 members of the General Assembly are invited is required.
Presidential: meetings as if it were raining. The candidates for the presidential election are multiplying this Thursday, the penultimate day of the campaign, in the run-up to an election which sees the gap narrowing every day between the two favorites, Emmanuel Macron (LREM) and Marine Le Pen (RN). Six meetings are on the program: Yannick Jadot (EE-LV) at 6 p.m. in Nantes, then Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Marine Le Pen (RN) at 6.30 p.m. respectively in Lille and Perpignan, Valérie Pécresse (LR) at 7 p.m. in Lyon, Philippe Poutou (NPA) and Eric Zemmour at 8 p.m. in Toulouse and Paris. Anne Hidalgo will wander around Rouen during the day. On the presidential majority side, Gabriel Attal and François Bayrou will be in Bordeaux for a public meeting. Follow this “Super Thursday” live with Release.
The report
Ukraine: in Borodyanka, the ordeal of crushed cities. Located 40 kilometers northwest of Kyiv, this quiet little town was heavily bombed. Rescuers estimate that the many ruins hide many victims and the authorities fear a catastrophic human toll. Find our report.
Decryption
Pensions: on the right and on the far right, a reform in the old fashioned way. Lifespan, financing, need for savings… To defend a postponement of the legal age of departure, Emmanuel Macron, Valérie Pécresse and Eric Zemmour advance the same arguments and chain shortcuts and false evidence. Find our decryption.
The portrait
Stephan Eicher, the wandering spirit. Nicely struck meeting with the Swiss singer who recounts his continued tours, his digitized music, but also the deadly Covid and the geopolitical jumble. Find his portrait.