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3000 American soldiers deployed in Eastern Europe. The tension does not weaken in the Ukrainian crisis. The United States announced on Wednesday the dispatch of 3,000 additional American soldiers to Eastern Europe to defend NATO countries. “against all aggression”, at a time when Westerners are increasing their warnings to Russia, which they suspect of wanting to invade Ukraine. These troops are in addition to the 8,500 soldiers placed on alert at the end of January by Washington to be deployed in NATO’s rapid reaction force if necessary. A measurement “unwarranted, destructive, increasing military tensions and narrowing the scope for political decisions” castigated Vladimir Putin’s foreign minister Alexander Grushko. Some 100,000 Russian soldiers have been deployed for weeks on the Ukrainian border.
Death of Monica Vitti: a star in “the Night”. It is an interminable mourning that ends. The death of Monica Vitti, at the age of 90, is the last act of the disappearance, twenty years ago, of the Italian actress. Icon of the incandescent Sixties, figurehead of the revolutionary cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni of which she was the muse and the companion, immense star of the theater, the comedy and the Italian television, she had withdrawn from the world at the beginning of the years 2000 after being affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
EU angers environmentalists with ‘green’ label for gas and nuclear. After much debate and dissension among the 27 Member States of the Union, the European Commission published this Wednesday its proposal relating to the taxonomy, in order to better direct the public and private financing of activities contributing to reduce gas emissions. greenhouse gases and thus achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The proposal notably includes fossil gas and nuclear energy as “transition” energies. Hence the ire of environmental organizations. “Instead of breaking with our dependence on fossil gas, we are doing the opposite”, regrets in an interview with Liberation Neil Makaroff, head of European policies for Réseau Action Climat.
Abuse in nursing homes: facing the deputies, the leaders of Orpea remain in denial. New dodge for the leaders of Orpea, this time with a little melodramatic touch. For nearly three hours, the deputies of the Social Affairs Committee on Wednesday asked a succession of questions as precise as they are incisive. But the general manager France of the group Jean-Christophe Romersi and the brand new CEO of Orpea Philippe Charrier, remained more than evasive.
Agriculture: the gendarmes of the Demeter cell deprived of their “ideological” surveillance power. Behind the fight against “agribashing”, a monitoring cell of environmental activists. The administrative court of Paris judged Tuesday evening illegal the mission of prevention of the “actions of an ideological nature” led by the gendarmes of the Demeter unit. A setback for the government and a “relief” for environmental associations. The Ministry of the Interior now has two months to “put an end to” these actions, under penalty of a fine of 10,000 euros per day. The mission to prevent “actions of an ideological nature” led by the unit, had been created in 2019 under the leadership of Christophe Castaner by the gendarmerie in association with the FNSEA to defend the agro-industry. , was deemed illegal by the Administrative Court of Paris.
Sexual assault by Shaïna in Creil: up to one year in prison required by the prosecution. The story, sordid, had marked the spirits. The prosecution requested Tuesday between nine months and a year in prison against four young people tried behind closed doors for violence and sexual assault, in 2017 in Creil, against Shaïna, 13, who will be murdered two years later. After two days of trial, the correctional court for children of Senlis put its decision under advisement on March 1.
Sex education: modest school. Unveiled by Release, a survey by the feminist collective #NousToutes of more than 10,900 people who have completed at least one year in college or high school since 2001, drives the point home. Respondents had an average of only 2.7 sex and relationship education sessions, or just 13% of the 21 sessions they should have had.
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Census of feminicides: should we change the method? It was a brutal disagreement that started it all. On January 5, the feminist collective #NousToutes announced on Twitter that it would now stop relaying the count of marital feminicides carried out since 2016 by the volunteers of another militant group, “Féminicides by companions or ex”, due to remarks transphobes maintained on social networks by one of its members. This approach raises the question of the need to extend the counts carried out in France, as is done in Spain. Decryption.
Cyberattacks and disinformation: the presidential election facing the risk of interference. With the approach of essential elections, the threats of destabilization are at the heart of the concerns of the State, which endeavors to prevent them by multiplying the initiatives. Sufficient to ward off further interference in the democratic process? Investigation.
Why do you teach? “Because in class, there is no notion of profit”. Release asked 40 teachers what they like about their job. Here is the second part of our testimonies, in the daily life of their classroom. Testimonials.
How was the government finally able to require the agreement of only one parent to vaccinate children aged 5 to 11? While for pediatric vaccination against Covid-19, a form requiring the consent of both parents was first put online in early January, the authorization of only one is now sufficient. In the meantime, this principle has been enshrined in law. Our full answer.