Finland takes a big step towards NATO… It was an open secret, it’s now official. The Finnish executive wants to bring his country into NATO “without delay”. “Being a member of NATO would strengthen Finland’s security, write this Thursday President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin in a joint press release. The formal decision, taken by a Council on Security and Foreign Policy, bringing together the Head of State, the Prime Minister and several ministers, will be given on Sunday during a press conference by this same tandem. In response, Russia threatened Finland with a response “military-technical”.
Tension is also mounting around energy issues. Germany, one of the main European customers of Russian gas, saw its deliveries routed via Ukraine drop by some 40% in two days, according to operators. The Russian gas giant Gazprom confirmed on Wednesday that volumes delivered to Europe via Ukraine would fall by nearly 30% on Thursday, after an 18% drop the day before.
Azovstal: Kyiv discusses with Moscow the evacuation of 38 seriously injured soldiers. While 38 seriously injured Ukrainian soldiers are trapped in the basement of the Azovstal steelworks, Kyiv carries out “difficult talks” to evacuate them, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. She said on Tuesday that “more than a thousand” of Ukrainian soldiers including “hundreds injured” are still in the huge Azovstal complex, besieged by Russian troops in Mariupol after the evacuation of all civilians last week with the help of the UN. Find all the news of the conflict on our daily live.
A first photo of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Three years after the very first image of a black hole in history, an international collaboration unveiled an unprecedented snapshot of the center of our galaxy on Thursday. No terrestrial telescope being powerful enough, it was necessary to synchronize different observatories all around the planet. Our article.
Eric Zemmour xenophobic candidate in Saint-Tropez. After hesitating for a long time, the former presidential candidate Eric Zemmour is embarking on the battle for the legislative elections in the Var, in the district of Saint-Tropez, despite an election that promises to be very difficult for his camp. “reconquest is back everywhere in France. I will lead our beautiful and great fight alongside our 550 candidates., he tweeted on Thursday. He had obtained 14.7% of the vote in this constituency, ie 7 points more than his score at the national level. Read also: Investitures Reconquest in the legislative elections: the conspiracy-identity-racist galaxy behind Zemmour.
Recreational cannabis: Germany says legalization sucks. German Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach intends to take advantage of the breathlessness of the pandemic to launch a series of reforms. Among them, the legalization of cannabis with a bill expected before the end of 2022. In a tweet published on May 6, Finance Minister Christian Lindner also confirmed that the process of legalizing recreational cannabis was on track. “A question that many people ask me all the time: “When the Bubatz [mot d’argot allemand pour désigner le cannabis] will beis it legal?” I would say: soon. The reform could bring more than 4.7 billion euros in additional annual tax revenue to the country, and create around 27,000 legal jobs in the cannabis industry, according to a study by the University of Düsseldorf published in November 2021. Our article.
Covid: easing of the measures in force in the Overseas Territories. Certain measures in force to protect overseas territories from the Covid-19 pandemic will be gradually eased from Friday. “Compelling reasons (to travel) from or to the Overseas Territories will no longer be compulsory for non-vaccinated passengers, with the exception of Wallis and Futuna” and “a negative Covid-19 test will no longer be requested on boarding for vaccinated passengers”indicate the ministries of Health and Overseas, in a joint press release.
The United States has passed the staggering bar of one million deaths from Covid-19. In the officially most bereaved country in the world, ahead of Brazil, India and Russia, official statistics reported 998,000 deaths as of Wednesday. But according to the White House, the bar of one million deaths has been crossed.
Two French arrested in Iran, the government calls for their “immediate release”. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday the arrestunfounded” of two French in Iran, demanding their “immediate releaseand promising toremain fully mobilized for this purpose“. Iran had announced on Wednesday the arrest of two Europeans “entered the country with the aim of unleashing chaos and destabilizing society“. They are therefore French.
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“She was the mother of a whole generation of guides”: the Vercors pays tribute to the dead caver by saving a schoolgirl. Sabine Lorne, 55, was a pioneer in her discipline, a respected guide, ski instructor and mother of three children. His funeral takes place on Friday in Lans-en-Vercors (Isère). His tribute portrait.
Roland Garros. Elina Svitolina: “Allowing a Russian tennis player to play on the circuit is propaganda for the Kremlin”. Impact of the war in Ukraine, banishment of Russian and Belarusian players from Wimbledon… “Liberation” met the Ukrainian tennis player on Wednesday May 11 in Paris. Ten days before Roland-Garros, the world number 27 clearly displays her political position. Interview.
Case of “abnormal neighborhood disturbances” in the Oise: “We need farmers, we are not here to argue”. A farm in economic survival, neighbors tired of noises and smells twenty meters from their doors… For twelve years, a family of farmers from Saint-Aubin-en-Bray, sentenced in March to 100,000 euros in damages , and nine residents are entangled in a legal process that seems untangleable. Report.
Carole Delga, an irreducible socialist against the rebellious. The president of the Occitanie region is on the front line to denounce the union of the left behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Ready for combat, she fears neither isolation nor blows, while keeping her ambitions vague. Profile.
What is my constituency in the legislative elections: the “Libé” search engine answers you. Constituencies straddling several municipalities or districts: to find your way around, “Libé” has concocted a precise and fluid search engine for you. What also revise the results of five years ago and those of the last presidential election. It’s this way.