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Putin will recognize the independence of the separatists. A gesture that risks setting fire to the powder, at a time when Westerners fear a large-scale Russian offensive. Vladimir Putin will recognize the independence of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin says. Earlier in the day, the leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk had indeed called on Moscow to recognize their independence and to set up a “defence cooperation”. The EU has declared itself ready to “react” if Putin actually made such a decision.
Presidential candidates facing employers. From Fabien Roussel to Eric Zemmour, six candidates for the presidential election followed one another this Monday at Station F, in Paris, to defend their economic program before the Medef. On the menu: declarations of love on the right and on the far right, and invitations to participate more actively in the ecological and social transition on the left.
A return to school unmasked for the first students. In Metz, Marseille or Lille, as elsewhere in zone B which returned to school on Monday, it is a time of relief in the face of the relaxation of sanitary measures at school. Thanks to the decline of the omicron wave, the protocol is lightened. Finished, the masks in the playground for schoolchildren and self-test sworn certificates for parents. The rules for mixing students have also been lightened, and they will now be able to mix more widely with classmates of their level.
In England, the end of mandatory isolation for covids this week. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson decrees the end of quarantine for infected people this Thursday. The country is thus abandoning the main anti-Covid restriction still in force two years after the start of the pandemic. “We now have sufficient levels of immunity to move from protecting people through government interventions to [une approche fondée sur] vaccines and treatments as the first line of defense”, he says. Follow the news related to Covid-19 on our live.
In Canada, the blockages lifted but the state of emergency not over. “Even though lockdowns are lifted across the country and borders are open right now, even though things seem to be resolving very well in Ottawa, this state of emergency is not over”, announces Justin Trudeau the day after a weekend under high tension during which the police regained control of the capital Ottawa. The Prime Minister also defended his choice, strongly criticized by the opposition, to invoke an exceptional law, the law on emergency measures, a week ago to end the blockages “illegal” recent weeks in Canada. Parliamentarians must vote on it this Monday evening.
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“Without a donor, I wouldn’t be here to talk to you today.” The Biomedicine Agency seeks to raise awareness about bone marrow donation, which is still too little known to the general public. Not very restrictive, it nevertheless saves several thousand people each year in France and around the world. Our article.
Renewal of generations in agriculture: “We are living through an invisible massive layoff plan.” In an interview at ReleaseTanguy Martin, advocacy officer for the association Terre de liens, explains why transmission in agriculture must be a major subject in agricultural policy for the next five-year period.
Thanks for asking. On Saturday, a 17-year-old hunter was implicated in the death of a 25-year-old hiker, shot dead during a wild boar beat in Cantal. A drama that raises in particular the question of the practice of hunting by minors. What are the current regulations in this area?
“We must take infertility out of invisibility and out of the realm of taboo”. On the occasion of the launch this Monday of the first stage of a national strategy to fight against infertility, Professor Samir Hamamah, commissioned for several months by the government to carry out an inventory of this disease affecting more than 3 million people, calls for better consideration of this public health issue.