IN BANGLADESH NEARLY 200 DEATHS
IN STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Bangladesh 200 Dead July 2024.gif) Bangladeshi authorities have arrested more than 2,500 people in recent days following violence linked to student protests demanding the removal of quotas for civil service recruitment. According to the latest report published this Tuesday, at least 174 people lost their lives.
A system deemed unfair.
Abolished in 2018 after several weeks of demonstrations, then reinstated last June by the High Court of Dhaka, the quota system, based on "merit", has been at the center of violent clashes between students and the police in Bangladesh since beginning of July.
The latest report as of Tuesday showed 174 dead, including several police officers. Authorities also imposed a curfew, deployed soldiers across the country, and cut off internet access nationwide, which significantly restricted the flow of information.
The student movement behind these demonstrations suspended its protests on Monday for 48 hours. Its leader said he did not want reforms “at the cost of so much blood.”
A Prime Minister in bad shape
This dramatic situation results from the reestablishment at the end of June of the quota system, which reserves more than half of the civil servant positions, which are highly sought after and well paid, for certain categories of the population. Students consider this system discriminatory.
About 30% of these positions are allocated to the children of those who fought for Bangladesh's independence in 1971, 10% to women, and 10% to specific districts.
Critics of this system say authorities seek to favor the children of supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country since 2009. Sheikh Hasina's father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is the founding leader of Bangladesh.
Aged 76, Sheikh Hasina won her fourth consecutive election in January, in a vote without any real opposition. The recent violence has raised questions about her political future, but on Monday, in front of businessmen, she reaffirmed her determination to stay in power, declaring:
"Sheikh Hasina never runs away". |
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FOR TRENDY BEAUTIFUL NAILS !
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First get a manicure for this either you go to a nail bar or at home.
Remember grandmother's recipes:
they are effective and remarkable.
For yellow nails, there's nothing better than soaking the varnish-free nails in a bowl of warm, lemony water for a good 10 minutes.
Guaranteed effect.
Are your nails breaking ?
THEN dip them in olive oil otherwise buy hardener found in the supermarket or pharmacy (the best is the hardener from Mavala). Oh you bite your nails ?!
So go to the pharmacy where you can find the best tangy products but above all the best thing is to spot the moments when you compulsively chew them and analyze the cause of this nasty habit.
And think of the photos in our article with all the pretty nails that you would love to have. Otherwise in the nail bars that you find everywhere you even have a manicure for a bluff effect for thirty euros.
Already with sufficient length apply permanent varnish, you will have impeccable nails for three weeks. Adding a drawing sometimes. The only problem: you have to go back to their place to remove it. If you are short on length we can give you false nails which are capsules or gel which looks more natural.
And there for the spring-summer season we can have designs on French manicure nails in the nail bar.
Big news that we are starting to notice on American stars.
It's the Flip Manicure: one color on the back of your nails and another color on top.
Like for example glittery blue on top and red below it can be nice even for Valentine's Day in February !
Phenomenon copied from a famous Louboutin shoe. |
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2024 OLYMPIC GAMES MOST DANGEROUS GAMES
ACCORDING TO SOME WORLD MEDIA | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/JO Paris Danger.jpg) A few days before kick-off, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will take place on Friday July 26, 2024 under the eyes of the media from around the world.
While 15 million visitors are expected for this global competition, many foreign observers are more worried. Our American media *Bloomberg* summarizes the tense geopolitical context of the Olympic Games:
"Some 88 Israeli athletes and eight Palestinians are participating in the Games, while the war between Israel and Hamas rages and France is experiencing an alarming increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes. At least one terrorist plot has already been foiled.
More than half of Russian and Belarusian athletes allowed to compete have ties to military agencies or have shown support for the war in Ukraine." In April 2024, *Politico* was already talking about "Macron's terrorist nightmare at the Olympics" Last January, the Italian weekly *Il Venerdì* headlined "Warning: dangerous games". The Italian daily *La Repubblica* is now worried about a competition which "will take place in the midst of wars, attacks and madness".
The Spanish newspaper *El Pais* points out, for example, sullen Parisians, while some wonder about the cleanliness of the Seine, whose depollution program cost 1.4 billion euros.
“The quality of the water in the Seine is far from impeccable, as the numerous analyzes carried out for these 33rd Olympics have shown,” criticizes the American channel *ABC News*, taken up by *Courrier International*.
More prosaically, the Australian daily *The Age* headlined:
"The Seine that stinks: where the fish go to die and where the excrement protests against the Olympic Games are born", in reference to Internet users who called for defecation in the Seine before Anne Hidalgo bathed in it.
Among the fears shared by the foreign press, security is at the top.
“Security issues are worrying, especially as we are witnessing an increase in attacks by radical Islamists,” judges the American weekly *Time*. With most of the competition taking place in the heart of the capital, journalist Kow Ewe speaks of an "ambitious break with tradition [Editor's note: which wants infrastructures to be located rather outside the cities] […], but also potentially the most dangerous.
The city of Paris has, for the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, prepared an opening ceremony outside a stadium, which constitutes an additional challenge in terms of security.
The American magazine mentions "security problems" which have "increased" in recent months, citing the arrest last May of an 18-year-old young man who planned a jihadist attack targeting the Olympic football events.
The *New York Times* adds that France "has unfortunately become accustomed to terrorist threats and to soldiers patrolling its crowded squares and train stations, their fingers near the triggers of machine guns."
In Germany, the *Zeit online* recalls that "the city of Paris maintained its candidacy, even though it was hit by a wave of Islamist attacks in 2015, the year it applied."
Often in the headlines for terrorist attacks, France has adopted draconian measures: closed airspace, reduced crowd sizes and increased law enforcement. In total, 35,000 police officers and gendarmes and 18,000 French soldiers will be mobilized during the Olympics.
The latter will be supported by foreign agents. “More than 80 countries are helping us, by sending police officers, gendarmes, deminers to make these Olympic Games the most beautiful,” said the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, Monday July 15. To ensure the safety of the public and athletes, 44,000 barriers will be deployed during the road events and the opening ceremony.
*The Times of Israel* daily reports that Israeli athletes have received threats via email, fearing a repeat of the events of Munich 1972, where the Black September terrorist group took Israeli athletes hostage, ultimately killing 11 people and a German policeman.
A journalist points out that the Italian delegation will parade with that of Israel, "one of the most controlled and at-risk nations, also followed during sporting events by Mossad agents."
Despite these apprehensions, the tone of foreign media is less alarmist than a few months ago. A few days before the start of the competition, fears are fading without disappearing. The most optimistic, like the German daily *Süddeutsche Zeitung*, hope to see a "vast urban celebration capable of affirming national sentiment"... |
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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF DONALD TRUMP
DIRECTOR OF SECRET SERVICES RESIGNS | S ince July 13, 2024, the date marked by an assassination attempt against former President of the United States Donald Trump, the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, has been the subject of strong criticism. According to *The New York Times*, she announced her resignation.
This decision comes after the attack on Donald Trump during a campaign rally, an event which highlighted potential failures of the Secret Service. Kimberly Cheatle publicly acknowledged that the agency had "failed" in its protective mission:
"The solemn mission of the Secret Service is to protect our nation's leaders.
On July 13, 2024, we failed. As director of the United States Secret Service, I take full responsibility for any security breaches of our agency,” she said.
She added: “The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 is the Secret Service's most significant operational failure in decades, and I keep him and his family in my thoughts.”
Responsible for protecting senior American personalities, Kimberly Cheatle had already admitted several flaws in the services under her direction, which had led to repeated calls for her resignation.
The perpetrator of the attack, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed by the Secret Service and identified by the FBI. From a roof near where Donald Trump's meeting was held, he had time to shoot several times.
The former president suffered an ear injury, one man died, and two other people were injured. A timeline compiled by authorities revealed that the assassination attempt could have been foiled up to six minutes before the shooting.
At a press conference, the FBI raised the possibility of a "potential act of domestic terrorism", although the ideological motivations of Thomas Matthew Crooks have not yet been determined.
Prior to this hearing, three investigations were opened by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security regarding the security measures put in place during this meeting. |
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JOE BIDEN WITHDRAWS HIS CANDIDACY
IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Biden the End.jpg) The current Democratic President of the United States announces this Sunday July 21, 2024 that he is withdrawing his candidacy for the White House, a few months before the election. For several weeks, voices have been raised within the Democratic Party for Joe Biden, 81, to “pass the torch”.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve you as President. And although I have intended to run again, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to step aside and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President until 'at the end of my term,' writes the Democratic president, who will address his compatriots 'during the week to explain [his] decision in more detail.'
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praises Joe Biden's action
At 81, Joe Biden joins the very select club of outgoing American presidents who threw in the towel while seeking a second term. But he is the first to do so this late in the campaign. The only one, too, to have to give up due to questions about his mental acuity.
This shocking announcement, even if it was expected despite the repeated denials of the main person concerned, upsets a campaign which has already experienced many twists and turns, first and foremost the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13.
Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, said in a statement:
"Joe Biden has not only been a great president and a great legislative leader, he is also a truly exceptional human being. His decision obviously was not an easy one to make, but he has once again made his point country, his party and our future first Joe, today you show that you are a true patriot and a great American.
This announcement comes less than four months before the election, scheduled for November 5. A new Democratic Party candidate must replace him to face his Republican rival.
Who to replace Joe Biden in the race for the White House?
We must now find a replacement for Joe Biden, who was supposed to be inducted at his party's convention in mid-August in Chicago. In a post on X, the American president supports Kamala Harris:
“My very first decision as the party's candidate in 2020 was to choose Kamala Harris as my vice president. And it was the best decision I made. Today, I want to offer my full support and endorsement to Kamala to be our party’s nominee this year. Democrats, it's time to unite and defeat Trump. »
His vice-president Kamala Harris would be a natural, but not automatic, choice to become the Democratic candidate. The last word goes to the delegates of the Democratic Party, 3,900 people with very varied profiles and for the most part completely unknown to the general public.
A candidate under pressure for several weeks
This withdrawal comes as more and more doubts were expressed regarding the ability of Joe Biden, aged 81, to secure the presidency of the United States for four more years.
Initially discreet when the Democratic president multiplied the slips of the tongue, the criticisms became more numerous after a catastrophic debate against Donald Trump. In front of millions of Americans, the octogenarian appeared in constant difficulty, having difficulty expressing himself when his opponent clearly aligned the arguments one after the other.
Americans are then furious, feeling like they have been fooled by the White House and the media. Billionaire Bill Ackman, followed by 1.3 million Internet users, calls the shots and accuses the media of complacency: ““60 Minutes” [show on CBS] knew; CNN knew; MSNBC knew, left-wing media had complete access to the president, his staff and his administration. They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They blatantly lied to you. » The New York Times must explain.
Representatives in the House, some senators…. and even George Clooney or the editorial office of the New York Times: Biden's supporters at the start of the year, everyone asked him after Thursday June 27 to "pass the torch".
The historic figures of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, also ended up giving in. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives and current leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate understood that a defeat for Joe Bien could mean a "red wave" in Congress in November, with Americans going to the polls on the same day to elect their president, their deputies and their senators.
Stubbornness despite a myriad of blunders
At the start of the month, however, the octogenarian assured that he could give up if and only "if the Lord Almighty came down and said 'Joe, withdraw from the race'".
But on Thursday July 11, a sign of the end, Joe Biden made the most monumental blunder of his mandate by calling Volodoymyr Zelensky “President Putin” during the NATO summit in Washington. Two hours later, in a press conference broadcast live and in prime time, he mentioned his “Vice President Trump” instead of Kamala Harris.
Everything accelerated after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on Saturday July 13, in Pennsylvania. When the former tenant of the White House was welcomed as a hero at the Republican convention in Milwaukee, Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19. In an interview broadcast two hours later before the suspension of his campaign and the start of his period of isolation, the Democrat said that he would re-evaluate his candidacy... if he was diagnosed with a medical problem.
In a poll, published on Wednesday July 17, nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters said they were in favor of withdrawing Joe Biden's candidacy in favor of another candidate.
This withdrawal opens a period of uncertainty for his camp, one month before the convention, which will have to confirm another candidate. But it also puts an end, at least temporarily, to a spiral which threatened to carry the Democratic Party into an electoral rout.
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JOINTS AND SWIMMING IN THE SEINE
ANNE HIDALGO’S DIVE | As the 2024 Olympic Games approach, a promise has become a media countdown: that of allowing swimming in the Seine, first for sporting competitions, then for the general public.
A few days before the open water swimming events for the Olympic Games, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo bathed in the Seine on Wednesday July 17, 2024. The State and Ile-de-France communities have invested 1.4 billion euros since 2016 so that the Seine and its main tributary the Marne are swimmable. With the promise of creating three swimming areas in Paris in 2025.
As city bids for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPG) lose popularity due to exorbitant costs and questionable benefits for local residents, the possibility for Parisians to swim in the Seine after the JOP is being highlighted. .
However, this media discourse has sometimes masked certain historical and current realities. Indeed, swimming in the Seine has been practiced over the centuries and persists clandestinely despite prohibitions.
Furthermore, this practice is not only recreational or sporting, but also linked to climate issues, while rising temperatures complicate the achievement of the objectives of the Paris agreement.
An ancient swimming tradition
Swimming in the Seine in 2024 is often presented as a novelty, when in reality it is an ancient practice in Paris.
Traces of ovens exist from the 13th century, although this practice is poorly documented in the absence of significant developments.
Over the centuries, bathing for hygiene, relaxation and leisure continued, gradually extending beyond Paris.
In the 17th century, we observed a boom in swimming in the Seine with the first bans and the first arrangements for river bathing.
These installations aimed to secure bathers against the current and to protect their nudity.
From the end of the 18th century, the facilities became more sophisticated with additional services and the appearance of the first swimming schools.
At the end of the 19th century, floating baths multiplied in Seine and Marne, while the first heated swimming pools were built in Paris.
Recurring but ineffective bans
Although swimming is not new, bans on swimming in the Seine have followed one another without succeeding in eradicating the practice.
Historians have found restrictions as early as the 17th century, motivated by the visibility of nudity.
Another reason, hindrance to navigation, appeared in 1840.... The sharing of public space was for the benefit of navigation. At the end of the 19th century, river boats appeared and barge traffic developed.
Despite competition from rail, navigation on the Seine continues. With the law of July 19, 1837 for the improvement of navigation on the Seine, major work was undertaken to supply Paris with water, and the bed of the Seine was dug. These restrictions led to the prefectural decree of 1923, still in force, prohibiting swimming in the rivers and canals of the former Seine department.
In 1970, the ban on swimming in the Marne cited water quality for the first time. However, even after 1923, bathing establishments continued to operate, experiencing a boom during the interwar period, particularly in the suburbs. Swimming persisted, particularly during heat waves.
Different authorities have in fact restricted swimming in the Seine since the 18th century without the health issue being the main reason before the 1970s. Swimming was authorized on exemption for medical reasons until 1867, with the idea that it was good to bathe and that it helped cure certain illnesses.
Swimming is also authorized in certain bathing establishments such as the famous Deligny swimming pool located at the foot of the Musée d'Orsay which was filled with unfiltered Seine water, exposing bathers to bacteriological contamination.
In addition, swimming in the river was authorized in Asnières, Gennevilliers, Epinay, i.e. downstream from the place where Paris sewers are discharged in Clichy. If we overlay the map of swimming and sewer discharges in Paris, we see that swimming authorized until 1923 is located downstream of the discharge points of these sewers.
This provides evidence that water quality was not the reason for bathing regulations at the time. After the Second World War, the rise of health issues led the police headquarters to occasionally prohibit swimming in the river but exceptionally authorized sporting events in the Seine. Photos notably show quite a lot of swimming during heat peaks.
Contemporary bathers
Today, occasional swimmers, activists or regulars, continue to swim in Parisian waterways. Sports competitions, such as the Paris triathlon in 2012, have seen athletes swim in the Seine. Amateur cold water swimmers also practiced in the canals despite the bans, with their own safety rules.
Activist swims took place to draw attention to water pollution, such as that organized by members of the Greens in 2005. The NGO European River Network popularized the Big Jump, collective swims demanding better quality of water. the water. The Marne Vive union has also been organizing Big Jumps since the early 2000s to make the river swimmable and protect its fauna and flora.
Urban swimming in Europe
In other European cities such as Basel, Zurich, Bern, Copenhagen, Vienna, Amsterdam, Bruges, and Munich, urban swimming is common. These cities have often achieved this goal through water sanitation policies. Copenhagen, for example, rehabilitated its sanitation system in the 1990s, gradually improving the quality of its water until inaugurating the "Harbor Bath" bathing area in the early 2000s.
With global warming and heatwaves in more and more frequent, access to swimming areas becomes crucial. Paris, vulnerable due to its dense and mineral urbanization, suffers from strong heat islands. Temporary swimming areas are organized by the City of Paris, such as those in the Villette basin integrated into the Canicule and Parcours Fraîcheur plans.
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MECHANICAL APPOINTMENTS SAINT PIERRE LA PALUD AN ODE TO AUTOMOTIVE PASSION
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Les Rendez-Vous Mécaniques embody an atypical and fascinating gathering, where passion for automobiles mixes with exceptional conviviality. Les Rendez-Vous Mécaniques is a cultural and leisure association based at 813 r 8 Mai 1945, 69210 Saint Pierre la Palud in France.
It is an event where amateurs and enthusiasts of fine mechanics find common ground to celebrate their shared love of cars. By alternating exhibitions of vintage cars and sports cars, both old and recent, these events offer a unique and enriching experience for all visitors.
![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/SaintPierreLaPalutCars/SaintPierreLaPalutCars 02.jpg) Each edition of the Rendez-Vous Mécaniques is transformed into a truly great mass dedicated to the glory of beautiful mechanics. Vintage cars, with their timeless charm and rich history, sit alongside modern sports cars, symbols of performance and technological innovation.
This alternation not only allows us to appreciate the evolution of the automobile over the decades, but also to create a bridge between generations, uniting young and old around a common passion. The setting of these gatherings largely contributes to their success.
The atmosphere is always warm and welcoming, conducive to exchanges and meetings. A buffet present during the gatherings of old mechanics offers tasty meals at reasonable prices, guaranteeing excellent quality at each edition.
Visitors can enjoy a variety of carefully prepared dishes, catering to all tastes and preferences. The refreshment bar, for its part, offers a selection of refreshing drinks, perfect to accompany meals or quench your thirst throughout the day.
This friendly catering service contributes to the warm and relaxed atmosphere of the event, allowing participants to eat while admiring the beautiful mechanics.
The gathering of old mechanics is often animated by musical groups who perform live, adding a festive dimension to the event.
These musical performances enrich the visitor experience, creating a vibrant and joyful atmosphere. The live music fits perfectly with the passion for beautiful mechanics, offering a pleasant and lively soundscape.
These musical performances help make the gathering an even more memorable and enjoyable event for all participants. Participants, whether seasoned collectors, amateur pilots or simply curious, share their anecdotes, their knowledge and their experiences in a spirit of camaraderie and sharing.
Les Rendez-Vous Mécaniques is not just a vehicle exhibition; they are a living celebration of car culture. Each car presented tells a story. Vintage cars evoke nostalgia for bygone eras, roads traveled and memories shared.
They are testimony to artisanal know-how and a time when every detail was carefully crafted. Sports cars, for their part, illustrate technical progress and the spirit of competition, with aerodynamic lines and powerful engines that make fans of speed and performance dream.
Beyond the exhibition, Les Rendez-Vous Mécaniques often offer various activities, demonstrations and sometimes even races or parades, adding a dynamic dimension to the event. These activities allow visitors to see the cars in action, feel the power of the engines and fully appreciate the technical prowess of the vehicles on display. In conclusion, Les Rendez-Vous Mécaniques de Saint Pierre La Palud is much more than a simple gathering of cars. They are a true automobile festival, a vibrant tribute to the mechanical ingenuity and aesthetics of cars, whether old or modern. It is an unmissable event for all those who see the automobile as more than just a means of transport, but a true work of art and a vector of emotion. |
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TO THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
THE EAR BANDAGE
AS A SIGN OF RALLYING TO DONALD TRUMP | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Trump Meeting.gif) On the third day of the Republican convention, Donald Trump's supporters surprised by displaying a new symbol of support: a fake bandage on the right ear, in direct homage to the one Trump has worn since the attack on July 13, 2024 .
This weekend, during a rally in Pennsylvania, Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. A 20-year-old man opened fire, killing one person and injuring several others.
Trump, hit in the ear, got up after being protected by Secret Service agents, bleeding but determined, his fist raised. His message was unequivocal: even in the face of danger, Donald Trump remains steadfast.
Donald Trump's Missing Shoe
“Give me my shoe,” insisted Donald Trump, with a bloody ear, to Secret Service agents after the shooting.
Since this event, Trump has used this act of violence to galvanize his supporters. At the Republican convention, with an ear bandage and a smile on his face, he was greeted with an ovation. His supporters, always fervent, immediately adopted this new look.
Known for their enthusiasm for wearing MAGA slogans, pins, socks and other accessories bearing the image of Trump, this time, they chose the bandage as a new emblem of solidarity.
Pay tribute to Trump
The trend has even spread to elected officials: Joe Neglia, delegate from Arizona, proudly displayed his own bandage. He told Fox News: "When [Donald Trump] walked in and the room exploded with love, I asked myself what I could do to honor the truth and show him my support.
I saw his bandage and decided to do the same to pay tribute to him."
True to her conservative beliefs, Neglia clarified: “There is a male version and a female version because there are only two genders!”
Convinced of the impact of this gesture, he told CBS News that it was "the new fashion" and that "everyone would soon be wearing them, everywhere."
Her colleague, Arizona delegate Stacey Goodman, was also seen with a white bandage on her right ear.
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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST DONALD TRUMP
IN THE MIDDLE OF A MEETING | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Att Trump July 2024.jpg) Striking images and a photo that goes around the world: Donald Trump injured in the ear with his fist in the air
Former US President Donald Trump was injured in the ear after being the target of gunfire this Saturday July 13, 2024 during a campaign rally in the town of Butler in Pennsylvania, in the eastern United States. -United.
One spectator died and two others injured.
The attacker was neutralized by the police.
An attack in the middle of a campaign meeting
A few days before the Republican convention which begins on Monday July 15, 2024, Donald Trump was urgently evacuated from his campaign meeting when he had just started his speech. He was hit by several bullets, injuring his right ear.
Sounds of explosions caused panic among the crowd, and Trump was immediately knocked to the ground by Secret Service agents, responsible for the security of presidents and ex-presidents.
Shortly after, he got up, his hair in disarray and without his famous red cap, surrounded by his agents. He could be heard saying "Let me get my shoes" as his face was bloodied.
Escorted from the stage to his car, he raised his fist in defiance several times, cheered by his supporters.
Spectator Killed, Two Others Seriously Injured
The Secret Service has confirmed that one spectator was killed and two others seriously injured during the meeting. Their identity remains unknown at this time. According to a witness interviewed by NBC News, the killed spectator died "instantly" after being hit in the head.
The victim was "in the path of the shots" between the shooter and the ex-president .
The gunman, who was shot, was stationed on a roof
The shots rang out at 6:15 p.m., the gunman having “fired several times from a high position,” according to the Secret Service press release.
The attacker was outside the compound where the meeting was being held, Butler County Prosecutor Richard Goldinger said on CNN, without providing details on his identity. “We have no information on the shooter, who is deceased,” Donald Trump also declared on his social network The Social Truth During a press conference, the FBI announced that it was “close to an identification” of the shooter .
The FBI confirms an “assassination attempt”
The FBI has confirmed that the shooting targeting the ex-president constituted an “assassination attempt”. Kevin Rojek, an FBI official, said at a press conference: "Tonight we witnessed what we call an assassination attempt against our former President Donald Trump."
Pennsylvania police said there was “no reason” to fear another threat. Donald Trump denounces "unacceptable violence"
On his social network, Donald Trump reacted by specifying that a bullet had pierced the top of his right ear.
“It is unbelievable that such an act could happen in our country,” he wrote, adding that he would still attend the Republican convention on Monday.
He told his supporters in an email: "I will never surrender
Donald Trump calls for unity .
On his social network Truth Social, the former president assured to pray “for the recovery of those who were injured”. “We hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed,” he added. “I look forward to speaking to our great nation this week from Wisconsin,” the Republican candidate wrote
It is more important than ever that we stand together and show our true character as Americans,” Donald Trump wrote on the social network Truth Social, hours after being injured in an assassination attempt during a rally. country house in Pennsylvania
President Joe Biden, who faces Trump in November's election, expressed relief that his opponent was in good health. “Everyone must condemn” such violence, he said in a televised address
. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was “horrified”
“ No place for political violence in our democracy,” responded former Democratic President Barack Obama.
Former President Bill Clinton expressed relief at knowing Donald Trump was safe, as did former US President George W. Bush who deplored a "cowardly attack on his life. "
Hours later, President Biden was able to speak with Trump and announced that he was returning to the White House earlier than expected. |
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LEGISLATIVES CHOOSING A PRIME MINISTER
IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
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S ince July 7, 2024, the Fifth Republic has experienced an unprecedented situation: no party or coalition can, on election night, claim to exercise power: the New Popular Front has 182 seats, the Ensemble coalition totals 168, the RN and its allies 143, and LR 46. However, in the political practice of the Fifth Republic there exists a majority logic marked by the role of a President of the Republic elected by universal suffrage and usually capable of bringing about the victory of his side during the legislative elections, a mechanism amplified by the constitutional reform of 2000.
An unprecedented situation for Emmanuel Macron.
This is why Emmanuel Macron, through his letter to the French of July 10, 2024, tries to reaffirm his central role, while the elections did not allow him to maintain his majority, already relative, in the Assembly.
No doubt he will lead the usual consultations, he who has already spoken with the President of the Senate, the President of the Assembly not having to be appointed until July 18.
This election of the President of the Assembly should allow the President to learn more about the state of the broad Republican coalition that he is calling for. It will perhaps also allow the Assembly to regain control when the written Constitution is of no help to it and when foreign procedures, which sanction a faded head of state, are unsuitable for French institutions.
These in fact make the president the master of the clocks and the institutional game. Even more so in the face of a divided assembly. This he clearly understood when he stated in his letter of July 10: “It is in the light of these principles that I will decide on the appointment of the Prime Minister.”
But how does the formation of a government take place in other European countries when no clear majority emerges in the Assembly? Which is very common in many countries.
The German consensus model
In Germany, the voting method makes it almost impossible to obtain an absolute majority. This promotes a culture of compromise and political alliances going beyond simple left-right divisions, as in 2005 with the “grand coalition” bringing together the CDU (right), the SPD (center-left) and the FDP (liberals), or in 2013 with the CDU-SPD coalition, renewed in 2017.
After the elections, the parties of the new majority negotiate a coalition contract, committing each to support the texts translating this programmatic agreement. Thus, in 2017, negotiations lasted 171 days, compared to 3 months in 2013 and 2 months in 2021 for a government led this time by the SPD with the Greens and the FDP as allies.
These agreements, although extra-constitutional, are essential to the functioning of the institutions. Article 63 of the Constitution stipulates that the Federal President proposes a candidate for chancellor to the Bundestag, which must elect him by an absolute majority. In case of failure, a period of 14 days opens, after which, if no candidate obtains this majority, the president can appoint a minority chancellor or dissolve the Bundestag to clarify the majority through new elections.
Thus, the parties must agree in advance to present a candidate capable of gathering an absolute majority of deputies, otherwise they risk dissolution. The president, respecting the unwritten rules of the parliamentary system, is still waiting for this proposal.
The French Constitution is more succinct: “The President of the Republic appoints the Prime Minister. » By entrusting the appointment of the head of government exclusively to the president, the Constitution strengthens his powers beyond the simple role of arbiter provided for by other Constitutions, which seek to limit his prerogatives.
In Poland, the president recently failed to impose his will on the Assembly.
The Polish Constitution establishes a strict procedure with deadlines imposed on the president. According to article 54, the latter must appoint a head of government within 14 days following the election of the new Diet or the resignation of the previous government. However, the appointed government must obtain the confidence of the Diet within the next 14 days to be able to govern.
The implicit rules require that the president consult the Assembly in order to choose a head of government likely to receive the approval of the Diet. If the candidate proposed by the president is rejected, the Assembly may, within the same period of 14 days, elect its own candidate.
This election requires an absolute majority, with the presence of at least half of the deputies to validate the vote. In the event of another failure, the president takes the initiative again, but without being able to impose his candidate, because the Diet can still refuse to grant him its confidence.
In such a situation, the president can, as in Germany, dissolve the Assembly. The Polish Constitution, recognizing that the voting method does not always guarantee a clear majority, offers several solutions. The president must therefore consult the presidents of the Chambers and the heads of parliamentary groups to designate a head of government acceptable to the majority. If the president makes a mistake in his choice, the Constitution allows the Diet to reject the proposed government and nominate its own candidate.
This is what happened in 2023. Conservative President Andrzej Duda appointed the leader of PiS, the largest group in the Diet, but which was not supported by the victorious coalition. The Diet then refused to trust him and elected Donald Tusk. The president was unable to oppose the latter's nomination, despite political differences.
In France, although the Constitution provides mechanisms for the government to seek the confidence of the Assembly, it does not authorize the latter to impose its choice on the president, who remains the only one able to appoint the Prime Minister. Unlike other systems, France does not have the constructive motion of censure, which would allow the Assembly to impose its own head of government in the event of the overthrow of the existing executive. The Polish Constitution also includes deadlines binding on the president.
Parliamentary monarchies
In Sweden, on the contrary, the power to appoint the head of government is conferred on the Assembly (Riksdag). The Swedish Constitution assigns this responsibility to the Speaker of the Riksdag, who must consult the parliamentary groups and the deputy speakers of the Assembly before proposing a candidate for prime minister. This candidate is then appointed if he does not receive a negative vote from half of the deputies. Therefore, the head of state, who is hereditary, has no role in the procedure for appointing the head of government.
Other examples also show the limitation of the powers of the head of a monarchical state in the appointment of the prime minister. In Belgium, for example, the process can last more than a year, as after the 2010 elections when it took 541 days to form a government. After elections, often without a clear majority, the king appoints an informant responsible for sounding the Chamber to identify the parties capable of forming a coalition. Political parties must then compose a majority capable of supporting a government, or at least not dismissing it. This led to a political crisis in Belgium from 2010 to 2011, where it was impossible to form a government, forcing the outgoing executive to manage day-to-day affairs. A similar situation occurred in Northern Ireland between 2017 and 2018.
Towards a technical government like in Italy in times of crisis ?
In Italy in periods of crisis, the Italian head of state, President of the Republic, exercises a specific role, namely a remarkable power of initiative whereas in "normal" times his function as guarantor translates into a relatively erased profile.
During periods of political crisis to form a government in Italy, the President of the Republic conducts in-depth consultations with all parliamentary groups. Each party can then express its preferences for the appointment of a head of government. Once these consultations have been completed and after having taken into account the opinions of all political groups, including the smallest, the President of the Republic tasks a person with forming a government. This personality receives an exploratory mandate to assess the possibility of forming a government team and obtain the necessary support from Parliament. If the conditions are met, this person then presents the new executive to the chambers to obtain a vote of confidence.
The concept of technical government emerged in 1993 with Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former governor of the Bank of Italy, at the helm of the executive branch. This model was reused in 1995 with Lamberto Dini, former general director of the Bank of Italy, then in 2011 with Mario Monti, and finally in 2021 with Mario Draghi.
Technical governments in Italy are often a response to political blockages, particularly when there is no parliamentary majority capable of supporting a partisan coalition. In these crisis situations, a head of government – the president of the Council of Ministers in Italy – is appointed to form a cabinet supported by a majority, or even by all political forces, in a spirit of national unity. These technical governments are seen as transitional periods which ensure institutional continuity and prepare the return to a political cycle based on elections.
Their composition is generally mixed, including technical ministers – recognized experts in their fields, without previous political experience – and figures with political careers without strong partisan affiliation. The agenda of these technical governments focuses on two aspects: economic and financial stabilization to maintain the country's position on the international scene, and the implementation of reforms difficult to pass within a framework of partisan majorities.
The question of whether Italian compromise is possible in France arises.
The conditions of political crisis and the impossibility of finding a majority could lead to this, the President of the Republic finding himself, after July 7, in a posture of cohabitation, that is to say in the obligation to leave a government and its leader the margin of power provided for by the Constitution in the conduct of policy...
However, Emmanuel Macron's hyper-presidency poses a real challenge in terms of a culture of compromise and negotiation.
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UNITED STATES WHO WAS THE SNIPER TM CROOKS ? | Sunday morning, the FBI confirmed the identity of the assailant who shot Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. The attacker, Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old young man, was shot dead by the Secret Service on the roof of a hangar after firing several shots. The former president was injured in the right ear, a supporter was killed, and two other spectators were seriously injured.
“The investigation is ongoing,” the federal agency said in a statement. Crooks did not carry identification documents, but was identified through DNA and photos. According to Pennsylvania voting records, he was registered as a Republican, but in January 2021, he made a $15 donation to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal group fighting against abstention, through the ActBlue platform, reports the New York Times .
A Republican from Bethel Park
Originally from Bethel Park, a village located about 40 miles south of Butler, Thomas Matthew Crooks was identified as the perpetrator of the assassination attempt. On Sunday morning, the police had cordoned off the roads leading to his family home. According to the New York Post, he was on the roof of a company hangar, more than 120 meters from the podium where Donald Trump was giving his speech, outside the security perimeter of the meeting. After shooting, he was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers, who recovered an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle near his body.
A video broadcast by American media TMZ shows the shooter lying on his stomach on the roof, holding a rifle. “The man has long brown hair and is wearing a gray shirt and khaki pants. He appears to be carefully aiming at a target before shooting,” says TMZ. A witness told the BBC that he reported to security forces a white man lying on a roof shortly after the attack.
Identification and Background
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives used its National Firearms Purchase Database for an emergency search, which helped definitively identify the shooter. Crooks was not known to the courts, and no information on his motivations has been released at this stage.
Thomas Matthew Crooks graduated in 2022 from Bethel Park High School, a school of 1,400 students, and received a $500 “excellence award” for an initiative in math and science, according to The Tribune-Review newspaper. |
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PANIC AMONG DEMOCRATS ABOUT JOE BIDEN’S ABILITIES FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Biden is Senile.jpg) Joe Biden on Monday called on divided members of the Democratic Party to "unite" around his candidacy, daring skeptics to confront him at the August inauguration convention, despite growing calls for him to withdraw. “I am firmly determined to remain in the race,” said the American president in a letter addressed to Democratic parliamentarians, returning to Washington after the July 4 break. “It’s time to come together,” the 81-year-old Democrat said.
His spokesperson tried to calm a wave of speculation triggered by an article in the "New York Times" revealing that a Parkinson's disease specialist had visited the White House eight times between the summer of 2023 and last spring.
Since Joe Biden's failed debate, growing panic has agitated the Democratic camp, reinforcing speculation about a possible replacement of the American president. At a meeting in North Carolina, Joe Biden conceded the next day that he did not “debate as well as before”. But, he reassures, “I can do the job”.
When asked if Joe Biden was being treated for Parkinson's disease, Karine Jean-Pierre replied: "No. Is he taking medication for Parkinson's disease? No", without specifying the identity of the specialist or the reason for his visits, citing "confidentiality".
Joe Biden seeks to reassure his state of health while two polls show a clear lead for Donald Trump in voting intentions nationally. Karine Jean-Pierre also clarified that Joe Biden had consulted a neurologist three times during his annual health check-ups, the last of which was made public in February, and that he had tested negative for various neurodegenerative diseases.
In the evening, the American administration published a letter from the president's doctor, confirming that Joe Biden did not consult a neurologist outside of his annual check-ups.
Biden determined despite criticism
Ten days after his failed debate with Donald Trump, Joe Biden shows no intention of withdrawing. On the contrary, he redoubled his efforts. He told MPs he was "not blind" to the "concerns" raised since the debate. But during a call broadcast during an MSNBC show, he sharply criticized his party's rebels. “These guys who think I shouldn't run, let them run against me... Challenge me at the August Democratic convention,” he said angrily.
This week, Joe Biden hosts the NATO summit in Washington. An opportunity for allied leaders to judge the state of fitness of the American president, although a spokesperson for the executive, John Kirby, affirmed not to have detected signs of concern among NATO members . Joe Biden will also hold a rare solo press conference on Thursday.
The division within the Democratic Party
To show his dynamism, the 81-year-old president has increased his public appearances, such as his speeches and crowds in Pennsylvania on Sunday. He also announced new trips, notably to Michigan on Friday, then to Texas and Nevada.
Not enough to convince the rich donors of the Democratic Party, among whom doubt has set in: what if the President was not able to lead the country for the next four years? Through tweets, some of them are demanding concrete pledges attesting to the leader's liveliness, which the White House continues to report on. Entrenched at Camp David, the campaign residence of American Presidents, the Biden clan is closing ranks, hoping that the storm will pass. However, several elected Democrats are openly calling for its withdrawal.
Call from Democrats to renounce
A first dike gave way on Tuesday. Democratic tenor Nancy Pelosi, former president of the House of Representatives and still very influential within her party, believes that it is “legitimate” to question the state of health of Joe Biden. In the process, a first elected Democrat, Texan Lloyd Doggett, calls on the President to give up running for a second term, urging him not to “hand us over to Trump in 2024”. A second parliamentarian followed suit 24 hours later, while a handful of others expressed, for the first time publicly, strong reservations about the captain's age.
Adam Smith, an influential parliamentarian, said on CNN that Joe Biden should "step down," saying he "is not the right person to carry the message of the Democratic Party."
Others, like Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, reaffirmed their support. “I made it clear and publicly the day after the debate that I supported President Joe Biden... My position has not changed,” he told CNN.
Despite the divisions, will a protest crystallize and lead to a coordinated offensive to push Joe Biden to withdraw? Such a decision would have serious consequences in a very tight timetable. And there is no guarantee that the American president would agree to give up his place.
“No one is more qualified than me” to “win” the election, Joe Biden said Friday evening during a twenty-minute interview on ABC.
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SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH FOR THE EUROPEAN ARIANE 6 ROCKET | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Ariane 6 july 2024.gif) The new European launcher Ariane 6 had its maiden flight on July 9, 2024, a key milestone for our continent. At a time when the European Union is gaining considerable power in the space domain (Copernicus Earth observation programs, Galileo satellite navigation, Iris2 telecommunications constellation), Ariane 6 is an essential constituent of European sovereignty.
After around ten years of development (and four years of delay), the European Space Agency (ESA) launcher took off, one year almost to the day after the very last launch of Ariane 5, the July 5, 2023, after 27 years of service. Its predecessors Ariane 1/2/3/4 and Ariane 5 having each been operated for around twenty years, the Ariane 6 assets were built to allow the same duration of exploitation.
Its raison d'être is twofold: the reduction in launch costs compared to Ariane 5 and flexibility (version with 2 or 4 boosters and re-ignition of the upper stage).
With a height of 56 meters and a diameter of 5.4, capable of carrying 4.5 to 11.5 t of payload for the geostationary transfer orbit (10.3 to 20.6 t for low orbit) depending on its configurations (Ariane 62, equipped with two boosters and Ariane 64, equipped with four boosters), Ariane 6 was designed to be versatile, in a context of developments in the market for satellites and launchers, including the partially reusable and very competitive Falcon 9 from Space X. Due to the lack of a European rocket and due to the war in Ukraine which deprives the ESA of access to Russian Soyuz launchers, Elon Musk's launcher had also been mobilized for the launch of two satellites for the European Galileo GPS system , last April.
The evolving needs of the space sector
The needs of satellites have indeed evolved considerably. Indeed, in the era of Ariane 4 and Ariane 5, the vast majority of satellites aimed at geostationary orbit and asked to be placed on a transfer trajectory towards this orbit. This type of mission was carried out by direct injection after the single thrust of the last stage of the rocket.
Launch requests are now much more varied and most often require upper stage re-ignition capability. This is due to the arrival of electric propulsion of satellites (more efficient but which requires a different orbital injection strategy), but also to that of satellite constellations in low orbit, for example telecommunications constellations like Kuiper, d 'Amazon, or Iris2, of the European Union. The re-ignition of the upper stage of Ariane 6 will make it possible to offer better services for interplanetary missions, by enabling trajectories that were not possible until now.
This re-ignition capacity will also be used to deorbit the stage so that it disintegrates in the atmosphere at the end of its mission to limit the presence of waste from the space industry in Earth orbit.
The flexibility of Ariane 6 is also expressed through its modularity. Its two-propeller version makes it a medium launcher, of the Soyuz rocket class – which was launched from Guyana for Arianespace until 2021 – particularly suited to earth observation type missions of 3 to more than 5 tonnes or the European geolocation constellation Galileo.
Its version with four boosters makes it a heavy launcher of the Ariane 5 type, which can send satellites weighing more than 10 tonnes into geostationary orbit and around 20 tonnes into low orbit for a transfer vehicle to the international space station such as ATV, or for telecommunications constellations.
A successful launch
Ariane 6 is perfectly suited to institutional and commercial space missions. Its two versions A62 (2 additional lateral thrusters) and A64 (4 additional lateral thrusters), combined with its upper stage re-ignitable engine (that of Ariane 5 was not), therefore allow it to cover a wide range of performances and thus respond optimally to very varied orbiting demands:
Low orbit (< 2,000 km altitude) for Earth observation or telecommunications constellations;
Average orbit for Galileo (around 15,000-25,000 km altitude), the European satellite navigation system;
Geostationary orbit (36,000 km altitude), for telecommunications or meteorology satellites;
“Exotic” orbits for certain scientific missions;
Missions in the solar system.
For its maiden flight, Ariane 6 was loaded with small satellites, deployers and experiments, developed by companies, research institutes, universities, young professionals and agencies. Among these projects, the 3 Cat-4, a CubeSat (cubic nanostallite) for Earth observation developed by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain), which will have the particular mission of extracting information on ocean data such as ice cover and thickness. Another CubeSat, Robusta-3A, developed by the Montpellier University Space Center, will contribute to better anticipation of Cévennes episodes, which often cause intense rain and severe flooding, by helping to quantify the accumulation of water vapor above of the Mediterranean Sea.
The end of the launcher's mission was, however, marked by a technical anomaly. It will take time to understand in detail the reasons for the malfunction.
Even if a maximum of tests and simulations were carried out during the development of Ariane 6 to limit risks, it is during its maiden flight that a rocket is confronted for the first time with real conditions, such as vacuum space, strong accelerations and stage separations to name just a few examples.
The main players in the development of Ariane 6
The development and manufacturing of the Ariane 6 rocket is carried out by ArianeGroup. The ESA (European Space Agency) is the project owner but also the architect of the launch system, that is to say responsible for the coherence between the ground installations and the rocket.
CNES, for its part, is responsible for developing the ground installations at the Guiana Space Center: this is the ninth launch pad that it has designed. It is also responsible for carrying out “combined tests”, assists the ESA and ensures the safety of goods, people and the environment under the French Law on Space Operations. ArianeGroup and CNES rely on a group of European industrialists.
Finally, it is Arianespace which markets Ariane 6.
At the end of the so-called commercial mission, that is to say after the separation of the nanosatellites, this launch will be an opportunity to test more complex maneuvers, such as those that would be necessary for interplanetary missions.
After the first flight, the teams will analyze the measurements transmitted to the ground to authorize the next flight as soon as possible. Indeed, the ramp-up must be rapid to respond to the 27 launches already marketed by Arianespace.
An evolution of Ariane 6 is even already in preparation with an increase in its carrying capacity... without increasing its costs. |
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WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE RESULTS
LEGISLATIVES IN FRANCE ? | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Assemblee Fr 2024.jpg) The New Popular Front is in the lead, followed by Ensemble and the National Rally. All the parties being far from the absolute majority, negotiations began.
Emmanuel Macron had chosen to dissolve the Assembly to “give back the choice” to the French. However, instead of the desired clarity, the result was a new relative majority. According to the final results of the legislative elections announced by the Ministry of the Interior, the left-wing coalition of the New Popular Front obtained 178 seats (182 with the dissidents), ahead of Ensemble (156) and the National Rally with its allies (143). seats).
None of the parties reached the absolute majority of 289 seats, which led to a period of uncertainty and political negotiations. Gabriel Attal must present his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday morning, but he expressed his desire to remain Prime Minister as long as necessary, particularly in view of the Olympic Games. Emmanuel Macron wanted clarification, but this did not take place, creating a risk of frustration among French voters and making an alliance between the New Popular Front and the presidential majority unlikely.
The presidential majority, with 23.15% of the votes, obtained much better results than in the European elections, winning around a hundred seats for Renaissance out of the 156 for Ensemble. For their part, Les Républicains, including various right-wing elected officials and some independents like Aurélien Pradié, obtained 66 seats. However, the central bloc, with its 156 deputies, lost almost 100 seats in three weeks.
France Insoumise stagnates, while the Socialist Party progresses
The results reveal the existence of three blocs of similar size. Emmanuel Macron dissolved the Assembly to obtain clarification, but the opposite happened. The left managed to unite quickly, while Emmanuel Macron's formation is holding on with difficulty, collapsing compared to 2017. The Republican right is resisting despite a difficult context. This is the paradox of this dissolution: Emmanuel Macron thought that the left was going to implode, but it was ultimately the right which fragmented between the former centrists allied with Emmanuel Macron, the Republicans rallied like Gérald Darmanin and Bruno Le Maire , those who followed Éric Ciotti in the alliance with the RN, and the Republicans stricto sensu.
This distribution of forces shows a polarization of the political landscape into three blocks almost equivalent in size. Emmanuel Macron's attempt to clarify political lines ultimately resulted in an even more complex situation, with a unified left, a weakened presidential majority compared to 2017, and a Republican right divided into several factions.
“The Republican front has completely reversed the scenario of this election. » Within the New Popular Front (NFP), which received 25.7% of the votes, La France insoumise (LFI) remains the main party in the coalition, but stagnates around 75 deputies. On the other hand, the Socialist Party (PS) almost doubled its membership with 59 seats, compared to 28 for the Ecologists and 9 for the French Communist Party (PCF).
Despite the uncertainties, the “republican front” succeeded in preventing the far right from progressing. Voters of the New Popular Front voted overwhelmingly against the National Rally (RN): 70% of NFP voters in the first round supported the candidate Les Républicains (LR) in the event of a duel with the RN, and 79% chose the candidate Together.
However, the transfer of votes varied depending on partisan affiliation during duels with the RN: voters in the presidential camp voted 54% for a candidate from the PS, EELV or PCF, but only 43% for a candidate. LFI candidate against the RN.
The RN changes dimension and becomes a credible alternative
In the second round, the RN and its allies, however, remain the leading force in terms of votes (37%, or 10 million votes), even if they only obtained " » 104 deputies, to which are added the 39 elected in the first round. Marine Le Pen denounced this gap between votes and seats as a “violated popular will”. Nevertheless, Jordan Bardella's party is the only political force to make significant progress in the National Assembly, going from 88 to nearly 150 deputies, a historic score which alleviates the bitterness of their defeat.
In addition, the RN now appears to be a real alternative. The entire period between the two rounds focused on this party and the question of the Republican front, without which the RN would probably have obtained a strong relative majority, or even a short absolute majority.
Although the RN comes in third position, it is nevertheless the leading party in the National Assembly behind two coalitions bringing together several parties. It is a first in the history of the Fifth Republic that such an important group finds itself in the opposition. This will have repercussions on the functioning of the National Assembly, influencing speaking time, questions to the government, the composition of committees, and the agenda . The RN has established itself over the long term in the parliamentary landscape.
The National Rally (RN) has radically changed in stature. It has become a catch-all party, similar to what En Marche represented in 2017. From now on, the RN appears to be a real political alternative. The entire period between the two rounds focused on this party and on the question of the Republican front, without which the RN would probably have obtained a strong relative majority, or even a narrow absolute majority.
The formation of a government therefore promises to be complex. Forming a government in this context proves difficult. Disagreements remain within the New Popular Front. How can we envisage a coalition going from La France insoumise to the center-right?
From a constitutional point of view, it is up to Emmanuel Macron to choose a Prime Minister taking into account the results of the election. Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirms that the head of state has no other choice than to dismiss Gabriel Attal and appeal to the New Popular Front to govern, by appointing a head of government from this coalition. Marine Tondelier and Olivier Faure share this position.
A coalition with variable geometry
Jean-Luc Mélenchon insists on the fact that the New Popular Front must govern. At the same time, Raphaël Glucksmann seems more inclined to recognize the complexity posed by the relative majority and to envisage a coalition including the central bloc. “We are in the lead, but we are in a divided Assembly,” he declared, calling on political leaders, with the exception of the RN, to “behave like adults”.
This divergence within the left bloc itself shows the difficulty for Emmanuel Macron to build something solid, especially when the simple mention of La France insoumise (the most important group of the NFP) provokes strong reactions within his own camp. . The key question is this: could a coalition integrating the entire left, including LFI, resist a motion of censure? This is unlikely, given that macronie has often pitted the “extremes” against each other.
A scenario where Macron attempts to divide the NFP by ignoring the rebels seems unlikely, given the loyalty to the common program expressed by socialists and environmentalists. Another solution for Macron would be to turn to the central bloc, reinforced by LR elected officials, of whom there are around sixty. Numerically, a relative majority could emerge, but this scenario poses several problems.
First, right-wing elected officials presented themselves as opponents of Macron, and some of them, like Olivier Marleix or Laurent Wauquiez, harbor a tenacious aversion towards the president. Secondly, this choice would ignore the voters' verdict, since among the three main blocs, it was the left which came first. Finally, such a coalition would not resolve the problem of the relative majority, returning to the initial situation.
A coalition beyond the blocs ?
To avoid the blockage and respect the message of the ballot boxes, it will be necessary to find a coalition solution beyond the existing blocs. Jean-Philippe Derosier, constitutionalist, believes that a unifying figure must lead this coalition, because no clear majority emerges.
Emmanuel Macron, patient, is waiting for the new National Assembly to be structured to make the necessary decisions. “In accordance with republican tradition, he will wait for the structuring of the new National Assembly to take the necessary decisions,” announced the Élysée after the results, specifying that the head of state “will ensure respect for the sovereign choice of the French” . Gabriel Attal, who has resigned, remains ready to manage current affairs for as long as necessary.
The results show the existence of three blocks of similar size. Macron hoped to clarify political lines by dissolving the Assembly, but achieved the opposite result. The left has quickly unified, while the presidential majority has weakened compared to 2017, and the Republican right is resisting despite the difficulties. The dissolution, designed to weaken the left, ultimately fragmented the right into several factions, further complicating governance.
In short, these results show a polarization of the political landscape into three almost equal blocks. Emmanuel Macron's attempt to clarify the situation resulted in an even more complex configuration...
Will power pass from the Élysée to Matignon ?
Power seems about to shift from the Élysée to Matignon, especially through the Palais Bourbon and without forgetting the Luxembourg Palace, where the Republican right holds the majority in the Senate.
Emmanuel Macron no longer has all the cards in hand to govern. He will have to deal more with parliament and other political parties. |
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MACRON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RISE
OF THE NATIONAL GATHERING | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Macronie in Danger.jpg) The first round of legislative elections, held on June 30, 2024, after Emmanuel Macron's announcement of the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, saw the National Rally (RN) and its allies ahead of other political groups with 33.15% of the votes. They are followed by the left-wing coalition of the New Popular Front (NFP) with 27.99%, and the presidential camp with 20.04%. The participation rate reached 66.71%, a record.
Today's political crisis is not without precedent. Crises are inherent to contemporary French political life, marked by a culture of conflict and radicalism since the French Revolution. Institutional instability characterized France between 1815 and 1958 with two monarchies, an Empire, an authoritarian regime and four Republics.
The Fifth Republic itself emerged in 1958 in a context of deep crisis, particularly due to the Algerian War, and faced significant crises in its first years: attempted assassination of the president, dissolution of the National Assembly in 1962, and the movement of May 68. Despite everything, the institutions resisted these crises, political alternations and cohabitation, creating the illusion of political stability which has been called into question for around ten years. years.
The RN vote
The success of the RN results from progression over 40 years, structured in three major phases:
1. Phase of rapid progression (1984-1988): The FN burst onto the electoral scene in 1984 with 10% of the votes in the European elections and Jean-Marie Le Pen obtained 14.5% in the 1988 presidential election. 2. Establishment phase (1988-mid-2000s): The FN maintains around 15% of the votes, wins symbolic victories (municipal victories in 1995, second round of the 2002 presidential election), and constitutes a network of executives and local elected officials, transforming itself into a “normal” party.
3. Normalization phase (from 2011): After stagnation at the end of the 2000s, the RN resumed its progression, accelerating from 2017 to heights rarely equaled in French electoral history.
The main driving force behind the recent progress of the RN is its ability to propose a political offer perceived as new and to benefit from a “clearance” reflex, similar to that which Emmanuel Macron benefited from.
The RN has long addressed a popular electorate neglected by other parties, notably the left, and offers apparently simple answers to requests for protection in terms of security, social issues and living conditions.:
Macron and the rise of the RN
Emmanuel Macron will remain as the president who potentially brought the National Rally to power. This is both a paradox and a failure of his presidency. Emmanuel Macron, who presented himself in 2017 as the best bulwark against the RN, contributed to its progress and its takeover. By seeking to recompose political life around two poles - conservative nationalists and progressives - he made the RN the main opposition force. Since the 2022 legislative elections, by giving the impression that La France insoumise constitutes the main threat to the republican order, the presidential majority has contributed to trivializing the RN. The dissolution of the National Assembly, when the RN was at its peak, was a gift to its opponent.
The mobilization of the left against the far right is part of an anti-fascist tradition, symbolized by peaceful demonstrations like those of the Popular Front. The far right, meanwhile, has abandoned street activism since the 1980s, focusing on an electoral strategy. The RN, under Marine Le Pen, has further reduced its use of street demonstrations, preferring to capture the protest potential of movements like that of the “yellow vests” to destabilize the power in place.
The Relevance of the Republican Front ?
The notion of a "republican front" no longer commands consensus, although it retains meaning for part of the electorate and politicians. The weakening of the notion of "republican front" is in fact linked to two main factors. First, the strategy of trivializing the RN has paid off, just as much as the promotion of Jordan Bardella whose surname and background arouse less concern than those of Marine Le Pen, associated with the figure of her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, and his divisive positions.
The success of the RN's strategy of trivialization therefore and the discourse of the outgoing majority on the two extremes make a broad regrouping against the RN difficult. In December 2023, for the first time, a majority of French people no longer see the RN as a threat to democracy.
Despite progress compared to the 2017 elections and the 2022 Nupes, the NFP has not succeeded in positioning itself as a real challenger against the RN for several reasons: the role of bulwark against the RN contested by the presidential majority, the internal differences on international and economic issues, and the absence of a leader to embody the coalition.
The dynamics of bringing together the left came up against strong differences which crystallized both on the question of anti-Semitism, omnipresent during this campaign, and on the personality of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Furthermore, this coalition does not have a leader to embody and carry it unlike the RN with the young Jordan Bardella.
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WHAT PLACE FOR
MASSOUD PEZESHKIAN
THE NEW REFORMATIVE IRANIAN PRESIDENT ? | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Masoud Pezeshkian Iran President.jpg) Iran has elected a new president, the reformist Massoud Pezeshkian, pleading for a country more open towards the West, facing the ultraconservative Saïd Jalili, to succeed Ebrahim Raïssi who died in a helicopter accident in May. The 69-year-old professional surgeon received more than 16 million votes (53.6%) out of 30 million votes, according to electoral authorities. He enjoyed the support of the main reformist coalition in Iran as well as many Iranians who feared absolute ultraconservative control over the country.
Pezeshkian's promises
Former Minister of Health, the 69-year-old man was supported by former reformist presidents Khatami and Rouhani against his competitors who advocate a hard line towards the West. Virtually unknown when he was authorized to compete by the Guardian Council, the authority responsible for supervising the elections, Massoud Pezeshkian is discreet in appearance but speaks frankly.
Massoud Pezeshkian, the first reformist to become president of Iran since 2005 (Hassan Rouhani, in power from 2013 to 2021, was rather considered a moderate), promised to extend "the hand of friendship to everyone " in the country. And displays an open attitude towards the rest of the world which contrasts with his predecessor. The reformist candidate called for “constructive relations” with Washington and European countries in order to “remove Iran from its isolation”. He promised to negotiate directly with Washington for the relaunch of talks on Iranian nuclear power, which had stalled since the American withdrawal, in 2018, from the international agreement concluded in 2015. "If we manage to have American sanctions lifted, the people will have a more comfortable life,” he said. A victory for his opponent Saïd Jalili, with an "inflexible and ideological approach" would have put Iran and the West "on a trajectory of conflict", believes Ali Vaez, country expert within the NGO International Crisis Group.
Nuclear negotiations are currently at an impasse following the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018.
Internally, he promised to remove restrictions imposed on the internet and pledged to “fully oppose” patrols by the moral police responsible for enforcing the obligation for women to wear the veil. While affirming his loyalty to the regime, Massoud Pezeshkian also became known for his criticism of the government during the vast protest movement triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. "We oppose any violent and inhumane (...) especially towards our sisters and daughters, and we will not allow such acts to happen."
Massoud Pezeshkian also called for more representation of women, as well as religious and ethnic minorities, notably the Kurds and the Baluchis, in the government. He promised to reduce the inflation rate, currently around 40%.
In a televised debate with his rival Jalili, Pezeshkian estimated that Iran needed $200 billion in foreign investment, which he said could only be achieved by restoring ties with the world.
The doctor of Azeri origin, a minority from north-west Iran, gave hope to the reformist and moderate camps, totally marginalized in recent years by the conservatives and ultraconservatives.
Does the Iranian president really have power ?
The president in Iran has limited prerogatives. He is responsible for implementing, at the head of the government, the broad political guidelines set by the supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has been head of state for 35 years. As president, Pezeshkian will occupy the second most important position in the Islamic Republic, and he will exert influence over domestic and foreign policy.
It determines the country's financial policies by proposing the budget bill and the appointment of the head of the central bank and the Minister of the Economy. When it comes to domestic politics, the role of president is not a completely empty shell either. “He can try to improve the economic situation by applying more rational management, for example by appointing technocrats to responsible ministries and organizations,” explains Azadeh Kian.
A president under the control of the Supreme Guide
But these positions, even very critical ones, will hardly be able to have any major effect. Experts say Pezeshkian will face serious challenges in a country where almost all state institutions are controlled by conservatives. "It is not the president who decides the overall strategies of the Islamic regime," emphasizes Azadeh Kian, professor of sociology at Paris Cité University.
“The president has a little room for maneuver, but for military, foreign policy or regional issues, it is the Supreme Guide, Ali Khamenei, and the Revolutionary Guards who define the orientations.”
Azadeh Kian, professor of sociology at Paris Cité University
He will also have limited power over Iran's police, and virtually no power over the army and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran's ideological army. Iranian military forces answer directly to the supreme leader.
Massoud Pezeshkian will also have to deal with a Parliament with an ultraconservative majority, which votes on laws and must give its assent to the composition of the government. The president "will undoubtedly have difficulty getting ministers who are too reformist to accept", anticipates Azadeh Kian.
A “conservative reformer” ?
Massoud Pezeshkian will therefore not be able to radically change the line of the country. But "he could improve Iran's image through a calming speech, and why not encourage the Guide to move towards negotiations with the West, of course in exchange for important compensation", estimates Azadeh Kian.
According to specialists, this election is unlikely to shake the foundations of the regime. “Massoud Pezeshkian is a reformer,” explains Thierry Coville, “but he defines himself as a reformer-conservative, he uses a lot of religious references...
All of this could help make him an 'acceptable' reformer in the eyes of Ali Khamenei." |
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UNITED KINGDOM AFTER CRUSHING VICTORY
OF THE LABOR PARTY
KEIR STARMER PRIME MINISTER | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Keir Starmer Prime Minister.jpg) The new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the composition of his government on Friday after promising to "rebuild" the United Kingdom, a political page of which is turning with the return of Labor to power.
“We will rebuild” the United Kingdom, declared the new 61-year-old leader on the steps of 10 Downing Street, after being charged by King Charles III with forming a government, the composition of which was revealed later. -noon.
Atypical personalities from the field and women in the highest responsibilities, the new team in power, "in the service" of the British, illustrates the change that Keir Starmer wants to embody.
His number 2 in particular, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of housing Angela Rayner, aged 44, from a very disadvantaged background and having left school at 16, stands out in the British political landscape.
Former Bank of England economist Rachel Reeves, popular in business circles, becomes Minister of Finance, the first woman to occupy this position in the country.
Appointed to Foreign Affairs is David Lammy, a descendant of slaves who was able to be very critical in the past of former US President Donald Trump.
Labor, official winner of the elections
The British Labor Party reached the threshold of 326 seats on Friday July 5, 2024, out of a total of 650, which marks it as the official winner of the July 4 general election. This victory ends 14 years of domination by the right-wing Conservative Party. Under the leadership of Rishi Sunak, the Conservatives suffered their worst electoral defeat since the start of the 20th century. The anti-immigration Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, outperformed expectations by securing 13 seats in Parliament.
According to BBC projections, Labor is expected to win 410 seats, a figure reminiscent of the 418 seats and majority of 179 seats achieved in 1997 when Tony Blair led the party to victory. The participation rate could be the lowest since 2005, at just 61%.
Conservatives sanctioned
Sunak's Conservatives are expected to win only 144 seats, less than half of the 365 seats obtained in 2019. Indeed, they have been behind in the polls against Labor since 2022.
More than 15 Conservative ministers lost their seats, although the Prime Minister retained his. He acknowledged Labor's victory and congratulated its leader, Keir Starmer, by telephone. Sunak plans to speak later in London, where the Times of London anticipates his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.
Brexit has left its mark
Brexit has left deep scars in the country, without keeping the promises of its supporters. Rising prices over the past two years have impoverished many families, increasing dependence on food banks. Waiting times for medical appointments in the NHS are months long, and prisons are at risk of running out of places. Brexit has damaged the successive governments of Johnson, Truss, and Sunak.
In 20 months in Downing Street, Sunak has never managed to turn around his popularity. He called these elections in July in a last gamble, but his campaign was disastrous, marked by blunders and a lack of political sense.
Keir Starmer capitalized on his modest origins to differentiate himself from his multimillionaire opponent. Although not very charismatic, he is determined and promises to transform the country as he straightened out Labour, by refocusing economically and fighting against anti-Semitism.
Future British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised “national renewal” for the United Kingdom in an early morning speech. “Our task is nothing less than to renew the ideas that maintain the unity of our country, a national renewal,” he continued. “I don’t promise it will be easy. »
Just nine years after entering politics and four years after taking over as Labor leader, he will face considerable yearning for change.
The expected outcome is not expected to significantly change relations between Europe and the UK, although Labor has promised a "common sense" relationship with Europe, involving regulatory alignment and a defense pact potential with the EU, while excluding any European integration.
Reform UK 's resounding entry into Parliament
The anti-immigration party Reform UK made a remarkable entry into Parliament, winning 13 seats, including that of Nigel Farage, elected after seven unsuccessful attempts. Reform UK has often competed with the Tories for votes, but Britain's electoral system makes it difficult to convert votes into seats.
News that he described as “truly extraordinary” for him and his political party. “This is the first step in something that will stun you all,” he added after the announcement of the results in Clacton-on-Sea, the seaside town where he was a candidate.
Before the election was announced, the party had one MP, Lee Anderson from Ashfield, who had left the ruling Conservative Party. Nigel Farage, who, for his eighth candidacy, will now be MP for Clacton, announced that he would “attack the Labor Party”.
At the center of the political spectrum, the Liberal Democrats made a certain comeback, winning 61 seats, a result close to that of 2010 (62 seats), the year during which they formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, broke their election promise not to increase university fees, and were reduced to eight seats.
The Scottish National Party is expected to retain just eight MPs, fewer than in the previous election, partly due to the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon.
The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein gained seven MPs, although it does not traditionally send representatives to the Westminster parliament. Its main ideological opponents, the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), obtained four MPs.
In Wales, Plaid Cymru, the party campaigning for Welsh autonomy, doubled its 2019 results, from two to four MPs.
Finally, the Greens gained three MPs, retaining their stronghold of Brighton and gaining seats in Bristol and the east of England. |
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AMERICAN NATIONAL HOLIDAY 2024
DAYNEWSWORLD BIRTHDAY | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA2/Independence Day.jpg)
O n this national holiday, we are delighted to share with you exceptional news which marks a significant milestone in the history of Daynewsworld.
As we celebrate the 151st anniversary of our newspaper, we have reached an impressive milestone: more than 250 million readers follow us daily.
![](/images/stories/ArticlesA6/4 th Day.jpg) This achievement demonstrates our continued commitment to journalistic excellence and our ability to evolve with the times.
The past year has been particularly successful for Daynewsworld.
In 2023, we celebrated our 150th anniversary, marking a century and a half of dedication to quality information.
Since our first edition printed on July 4, 1873, we have come a long way, always seeking newness and innovation.
Today, we are proud to say that our newspaper is more dynamic than ever.
Exceptional Growth and a Global Audience
The milestone of 250 million daily readers is an achievement that we owe to you, dear readers.
Your loyalty and commitment have allowed Daynewsworld to establish itself as a go-to source for high-quality news.
In 2024, we continued to embrace the challenges of modernity while remaining faithful to our primary mission: to inform, educate and entertain.
Innovation and Modernity at the Heart of Our Strategy
Our success is largely based on our ability to adapt to technological developments and the changing expectations of our audience. In 2023, we strengthened our digital presence, offering an ever richer and more interactive user experience. This digital transformation has allowed us to reach new horizons, thus consolidating our leading position in the global media landscape.
A Dedicated and Passionate Team
The driving force behind our success is our team of experienced and passionate journalists. Their dedication and talent guarantee the quality of the information we provide you every day.
Since our first edition, we have been committed to presenting a diversity of topics, covering national and international news, science, culture, economics, and much more. This editorial diversity is one of the keys to our success, meeting the varied expectations of our large audience.
An Unwavering Commitment to Quality
We firmly believe that quality content is the cornerstone of our newspaper.
Each article, each edition, is an opportunity for us to offer you the best information. In 2024, we continue to emphasize in-depth reporting, insightful analysis and diverse perspectives, always with our hallmark integrity and professionalism.
A Sincere Thank You to Our Readers
We would like to express our deep gratitude to each of our 250 million readers. Your trust and support are the pillars of our success. It is thanks to you that we have been able to continually grow and improve. You are our reason for being, and we are honored to share this adventure with you.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Mars Futur Nasa.jpg)
Towards a Bright Future
On this day of celebration, we raise a glass to these 151 years of journalistic excellence. We are committed to continuing to inform, entertain and enlighten you for many years to come.
Daynewsworld is your newspaper, and it is with immense pride that we write a new page of this beautiful story every day.
Thank you for being with us, thank you for being part of our success. Together, we are heading towards an even more promising future. Daynewsworld is and will remain your trusted source of information, today and always. |
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MAKEUP
NATURAL BEAUTY FOR THIS SUMMER
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The fashion of this summer is to arrive refreshed while being natural.
But it is not really feasible because we are tired of the year the heat has killed our hair our legs are as white as our buttocks to the it is sure no trace of the shirt but rather the dark circles are out.
Let it be said even on awakening, the " top models " do not look like the pictures of the commercials that we see.
To arrive natural on the beach there is a little work.
Let's start with the head and the body we are going to make a good scrub it is necessary to exfoliate to remove the gray face dead skin to revive the circulation we advise you for the face exfoliating lotion P50 of Biologique Recherche.
And then hydrate a maximum for that argan oil is great.
We are going to finally give a little shape to our face by using hyaluronic acid serum on our forehead every day.
Finally final touch must put the tan on the face and body by spreading well.
We agree: you removed the planet effect of the monkeys and everything is shaved .....
For the nails the colors are forgotten a french manicure on the feet and natural beige on the hands if possible all in semi permanent that lasts a month without retouching.
For the hair a tour at the hairdresser locks or color more cut we will do we have always heard that it is in September that it is necessary to do all that but it is these summer holidays that we will find our prince charming or our real toy sex no ?
The reunion of lovers !
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APRICOT AND ALMOND CLAFOUTIS BY CYRIL LIGNAC
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With summer fruits, here is an easy and delicious dessert by the renowned pastry chef Cyril Lignac.
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Apricots: 1 lb (about 1 pound) Eggs: 3 Heavy cream: 3/4 cup Granulated sugar: 2/3 cup Hazelnut flour: 1 cup Amaretto: 2 tablespoons Sliced almonds: a handful Butter: 2 teaspoons
Preparation:
Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
Cut a sheet of parchment paper to the size of the baking dish.
Brush the parchment paper with butter and place it in the dish. Pit and halve the apricots.
In a mixing bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, heavy cream, amaretto, and hazelnut flour.
For the mixture into the buttered dish, arrange the apricots evenly on top, and sprinkle with sliced almonds.
Bake for 30 minutes.
Let cool before unmolding.
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LEGISLATIVE CHALLENGES IN FRANCE | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Election 2024.jpg) In France, early legislative elections will take place on June 30 and July 7, 2024, following the dissolution of the National Assembly by President Emmanuel Macron after the European elections, where the National Rally (RN) won a significant victory.
The number and role of the deputy
The National Assembly is made up of 577 seats. The deputies' mission is to propose, amend and vote on laws. During the first round of elections, scheduled for June 30, French voters will choose among the candidates in their constituency.
If a candidate obtains an absolute majority (more than 50% of the votes with at least 25% of registered voters), he is automatically elected. The abstention rate therefore plays a crucial role, unlike the presidential election.
If no candidate reaches an absolute majority in the first round, a second round will take place on July 7, 2024.
Any candidate having obtained more than 12.5% of the votes can participate in the second round. Whoever obtains the most votes in the second round wins a seat in the National Assembly.
Around 125,000 inhabitants per constituency
The number of deputies sitting in the Assembly is determined by the electoral division. France is divided into 577 constituencies (539 in mainland France, 27 overseas, and 11 for French people living abroad), and a deputy is elected by direct universal suffrage in each of them.
Each constituency represents around 125,000 inhabitants, with a margin of plus or minus 20%. Each department must have at least one constituency, as is the case for Lozère, despite its population of only 76,633 inhabitants according to the latest INSEE census. The more populated departments, such as Paris and the North, have 18 and 21 constituencies respectively.
The constituencies are redistributed regularly by the Ministry of the Interior to follow demographic developments. The last redistribution dates from 2010, launched in 2008 under the five-year term of Nicolas Sarkozy and the Fillon government. On this occasion, the number of inhabitants per constituency increased from 108,000 to 125,000 and the obligation to elect two deputies per department was repealed.
The electoral redistributions, often criticized for favoring the political camp in power, were contested in 2010 by the left-wing opposition. However, the Constitutional Council validated the modifications, affirming that they respected “the principle of equality before the vote”.
The French governance system
The French system of governance, unique in its kind, is a hybrid regime comprising a president elected directly by the people, thus giving him great legitimacy, and a powerful Parliament. The Fifth Republic, established by the 1958 Constitution, was born to limit the power of the National Assembly after the instability of the Fourth Republic. In 1962, a referendum allowed the election of the president by universal suffrage, thus strengthening the presidential character of the system. The Constitution grants the president specific powers, such as dissolving Parliament or calling referendums.
At least 289 seats for an absolute majority in the National Assembly
In the context of the next legislative elections, the objective of each party is to obtain at least 289 seats to achieve an absolute majority in the National Assembly. If a party only obtains a relative majority, as is currently the case for Macron's party with 230 seats, it must form alliances to govern.
The president must then appoint a prime minister from the majority coalition, who will choose his ministers, a situation known as "cohabitation". If no majority or coalition emerges, it could paralyze the government, an unprecedented situation in France.
New elections could not be organized for a year, and although Macron's resignation is a hypothesis, he has ruled it out for the moment.
During periods of cohabitation, the French president must adopt a more discreet role, similar to that of heads of state in other parliamentary systems, while retaining certain powers, particularly in matters of defense and foreign policy. It is the majority party in the National Assembly which mainly controls domestic policy. In the event of disagreement with a law, the president can refer the matter to the Constitutional Council or request a second reading from the National Assembly.
But if the Constitutional Council declares itself incompetent or if the deputies vote for the law a second time, the head of state must then sign it.
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PERFUME OF THE SUMMER
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You only dream of sun and hot sand for a most scented summer. Some warm fragrances deposited in the hollow of your neck for your summer evenings
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Light Blue Sun, Dolce & Gabbana Beauty, (Limited Edition)
This signature Light Blue fragrance is refreshed at the top by a tangy Italian lemon and a Granny Smith apple, and warms up in the background with coconut water, amber and Bourbon vanilla.
Frangipani Flower Cologne, Jo Malone
Ode to the flower of frangipani, this Cologne invites to a walk in the garden of a temple in Bali and recalls the stone heated by the sun. With the scent of jasmine, ylang-ylang and sandalwood.
Light di Gioia, Giorgio Armani
Your skin is caressed by a light touch of bergamot, a generous heart and floral jasmine and gardenia. A feeling of warmth lasts all day thanks to the white musk and the woody notes.
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White Sun Water, Tom Ford
White Sun Water is sensual. Here, the sun is invigorating, made of sparkling citrus fruit contrasted by the warmth of the tonka bean, benzoin and sea coconut.
Come on, go ! go !! go !!! On the way, the perfume of your choice !
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CONSCIENCE ACCORDING TO NEUROSCIENCES | The notion of consciousness is one of the most difficult and sophisticated to understand. Its complexity lies not only in the difficulty of understanding it, but also in the interweaving of multiple elements that constitute it.
Let's briefly discuss three contemporary theories, each defended by scientists, who try to unravel the mysteries of consciousness with L aure Tabouy, Researcher in ethics of neuroscience, neurotechnologies, digital technology and AI.
Consciousness is defined as the “knowledge, intuitive or immediate reflexive, that everyone has of their existence and that of the external world.” It is crucial to distinguish between different types of consciousness.
Spontaneous or immediate consciousness is anchored in experience, oriented towards the external world and corresponds to the individual's presence to himself at the moment when he thinks, feels or acts.
Reflective awareness, on the other hand, is the capacity for introspection to analyze one's own thoughts or actions. Finally, the term "conscience" can also refer to our faculty of moral judgment, although this latter aspect is not the object of our interest here.
Are we on the cusp of discovering the signature of consciousness ?
Since the 1950s, advances in neuroscience, computer science and engineering have suggested the possibility of decoding the human mind, or even "uploading" it to digital media, according to some researchers. However, consciousness remains an enigma for scientists.
Although the brain mechanisms are being revealed more and more precisely, the question persists: will we discover the neuronal signature of consciousness? To answer this quest, science relies on various theories.
In this initially philosophical debate, scientific theories of consciousness adopt a materialist approach, postulating that consciousness emerges from the matter constituting our being, as opposed to dualists who consider body and mind as two distinct realities. Scientists therefore base their research on the analysis of brain activity.
The Global Workspace Theory
This theory, developed by the American neuroscientist Bernard Baars and supported by the French researchers Stanislas Dehaene, Lionel Naccache and Jean-Pierre Changeux, is functional: it describes consciousness by its functions.
She explains that consciousness results from the interaction between various brain regions and processes. When sensory information is perceived, it is first processed automatically by specialized regions, such as the visual cortex.
If this information is not amplified by a larger neural network, it remains unconscious.
Consciousness therefore emerges from a slow but flexible integration of information from various specialized networks. Once aware of sensory information, the individual can perform various mental operations. This process manifests itself as a “flare” of brain activity, approximately 300 milliseconds after perception .
Integrated information theory
Proposed by Giulio Tononi in 2004, this functional theory postulates that consciousness is defined by the capacity of a system to integrate a large amount of information. A conscious system generates information confronted with each other, creating a unique and irreducible mental state. Tononi offers a theoretical framework to explain why certain systems, such as the brain, are conscious and capable of subjective experiences.
This theory opens the possibility that other systems, including artificial ones, could be conscious.
Although controversial and criticized for its lack of detail and being called "unfalsifiable pseudoscience" by some neuroscientists, it continues to be developed. Higher-order theories
Defended by philosopher David Rosenthal and psychologist Michael Graziano, these theories explain the distinction between conscious and unconscious processing of information.
They posit that consciousness consists of perceptions or thoughts about first-order mental states. Awareness of these states emerges when a higher order representation or meta-representation appears.
This theory proposes that perception, an automatic process, becomes conscious when this higher-order representation becomes conscious thought. According to neuroscientist Edmund Rolls, this mechanism allows error correction and action planning, while unconscious processing would be sufficient for the execution of tasks without requiring consciousness.
What are the issues in the current context ?
Human consciousness, a reflection of our singular existence, intersects emotions, thoughts, experiences and biology. Today, the question of consciousness, both philosophical and scientific, gives rise to lively debates.
The quest to understand consciousness raises fundamental questions about human identity and interiority.
Furthermore, advances in neuroscience and neurotechnologies, such as cerebral organoids and brain-machine interfaces like Neuralink, promise new perspectives. Organoids, neuronal structures derived from stem cells, could become sentient and conscious systems, raising crucial ethical questions.
Current research on consciousness, in a context of technological effervescence, must guarantee that these discoveries serve the common good, protecting our psychological integrity, our privacy, our security and our freedom of thought. These theoretical and practical explorations thus outline a complex and fascinating landscape where science, ethics and philosophy intersect, and where the answers to the mysteries of consciousness remain to be discovered.
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HARO ON THE PROGRAM
OF THE NEW POPULAR FRONT | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Front Ppulaire 2024.jpg) At the opening of the conference where the New Popular Front detailed the costing of its program, Ian Brossat, representative of the Communist Party, criticized the economic record of Emmanuel Macron's government, describing it as "mismanagement". . The senator from Hauts-de-Seine highlighted an “unprecedented deterioration in public finances”, noting that the deficit rose from 2.3% of GDP in 2018 to 5.5% in 2023. He deplored that, despite the status as the seventh economic power in the world, France has 9 million poor people and consumption at an all-time low.
To strengthen its credibility, the New Popular Front presented possible new revenues to finance its electoral promises. Alexandre Ouizille, socialist senator from Oise, specified the three budgetary "limits" of the program: 25 billion euros in 2024, 100 billion in 2025, and 150 billion in 2027, with an intermediate estimate of 125 billion in 2026. Julia Cagé, professor of economics, criticized Emmanuel Macron's "unfair tax policy", advocating tax justice to create confidence and support a long-term investment policy.
The economist Eloi Laurent defended social spending potentially perceived as not very credible but economically effective, recalling the importance of measuring human well-being through various indicators, such as life expectancy and environmental protection, beyond simple monetary units.
Éric Coquerel, outgoing MP for La France insoumise, proposed measures to increase purchasing power, in particular by sharing wealth in such a way as to reverse the flow of income from uninvested capital to labor income. He estimated spending at 100 billion euros, to be balanced with equivalent tax revenues, including the hiring of teachers to reduce class sizes, a multi-year plan for the recruitment and upgrading of professionals in the medico-social sector. , as well as a guarantee of autonomy for young people below the poverty line.
The New Popular Front program also provides for an increase in the minimum wage to 1,600 euros, the repeal of pension and unemployment insurance reforms, and the establishment of an ISF with a climate component. To finance these measures, the coalition is proposing an additional contribution on high salaries and capital income. However, the cost of returning to retirement at age 60 has not been precisely assessed, although this remains a common objective of their legislative contract.
The presidential camp criticizes this program, calling it a "tax bludgeon" because of the planned expenses. He estimates that returning to retirement at 60 could cost between 53 and 100 billion euros, adding the costs of increasing the minimum contribution and indexing pensions to wages.
Eva Sas, Green MP, presented the program as a priority for purchasing power and rising wages, with financial support for businesses in difficulty faced with the increase in the minimum wage. According to Olivier Redoulès, economist and director of the Rexecode economic institute, the program is distinguished by greater state intervention in the economy, increased taxation of households for redistribution and reinforced regulation with more aid. .
What should we remember from the costing of the economic program of the New Popular Front?
“A very clear direction to move towards more State intervention in the economy” for Olivier Redoulès, economist and director of the Rexecode economic institute.
Two main lines to remember: “tax households more to redistribute more” and “regulate more, but help more”.
But what a lack of precision in the financing of such an unrealistic program ! |
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TERRORIST ATTACKS ON PLACES OF WORSHIP
IN DAGHESTAN
THE RETURN OF ISLAMIST VIOLENCE
IN THE RUSSIAN CAUCASUS | A week which begins with three days of mourning in Dagestan. In two cities of this republic located in the Russian Caucasus, armed men attacked several places of worship on Sunday June 23, 2024. Orthodox churches and at least one synagogue were notably targeted, some were set on fire.
On Sunday, the day of Pentecost, one of the most important holidays in the Orthodox liturgical calendar, attacks took place on two synagogues and a church in Dagestan, one of the small Muslim-majority republics in Russia's turbulent northern Caucasus. .
Late Sunday afternoon, two groups of armed men simultaneously threw Molotov cocktails at the Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin, killing the rector, Father Nikolai Kotelnikov, 66, and the Kele-Numaz synagogue, in the medieval town of Derbent. About half an hour later, another group of attackers opened fire on police officers guarding the Dormition of the Virgin Cathedral in Makhachkala, the regional capital. Around the same time, a Molotov cocktail flew at the city's synagogue, whose doors were spray-painted with surahs from the Koran. Exchanges of fire with the police broke out near places of worship. In total, according to figures confirmed this Monday, 20 people were killed, including at least 15 police officers, and 46 injured.
The authorities speak of “terrorist” acts and a criminal investigation has been opened into this matter. “This is a day of tragedy for Dagestan and for the entire country,” said Sergei Melikov, governor of Dagestan, in a published video early this Monday, June 24 on the messaging application Telegram. Three days of mourning were declared in the region.
Attacks in at least three places of worship
Sunday's attacks targeted "two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police checkpoint", according to the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee, cited by the Ria Novosti agency. Jewish representatives, including the Russian Jewish Congress, added that a second synagogue had also been burned.
The attacks by armed men dressed in black took place in the capital of the Russian republic of Dagestan, Makhachkala, and the coastal town of Derbent. Dagestan is a predominantly Muslim Russian region neighboring Chechnya, also close to Georgia and Azerbaijan. Anti-terrorist operations are regularly announced there by the Russian authorities.
Synagogues in Derbent and Makhachkala were burned, according to the chairman of the public council of Jewish communities of the Russian Federation, Boruch Gorin. Images, reported by Russian media, showed a burning building, presented as a synagogue.
Armed individuals also opened fire on a vehicle carrying police officers, injuring one of them, in Sergokala, a village located between Makhachkala and Derbent, the local Interior Ministry further clarified to Russian agencies.
The motivations for these attacks have not yet been identified
The Russian Investigative Committee said it had opened a criminal investigation into “terrorist acts”.
Russia announced, this Monday, June 24, the end of armed clashes in Dagestan, in the Caucasus, where attacks the day before against Orthodox churches and at least one synagogue left twenty dead and 26 injured.
The "anti-terrorist" operation carried out in this unstable region with a Muslim majority and neighboring Chechnya ended Monday morning and five attackers were "liquidated", announced the Russian Anti-Terrorism Committee, which ensures that "their identity has been established ".
However, it was not clear whether other attackers had been able to escape and no information on their motivations was leaked. There is no evidence to determine the motivations or identities of the perpetrators of these attacks, which appear to be coordinated.
This series of attacks comes three months after the attack claimed by the Islamic State (IS) on Crocus City Hall, a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow, which left more than 140 dead and revived the threat of Islamist terrorism in the country.
“Despicable crime”
Dagestan leader Sergei Melikov said Sunday evening that “unknown persons had tried to destabilize society.” “We know who is behind these terrorist attacks and what objective they are pursuing,” he added later, without specifying who was in the sights but referring to the war in Ukraine. “We must understand that war comes to our homes too. We felt it, but today we face it,” he said.
The chief rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, denounced a “vile crime”, guided by the desire to “kill as many innocent people as possible”.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church and staunch supporter of the Kremlin, assured that the “enemy” sought to destroy “inter-religious peace” in Russia. Its goal is to “plant the seeds of hatred”, he denounced, without naming those responsible.
President Vladimir Putin has still not commented on these attacks, which were not immediately claimed and which took place in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, and in the coastal town of Derbent.
The Kremlin, however, on Monday brushed aside any idea of a possible return of an Islamist insurgency in the Caucasus, as in the 2000s, in the wake of the second Chechen war.
“Russia has changed, society has consolidated and such terrorist demonstrations are not supported by society,” assured the spokesperson for the Russian presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
The bloody attacks that have hit Russia over the past three months are, however, a consequence of Moscow's obsession with Ukraine, believe several experts who believe that the Russian authorities have come to underestimate the Islamist threat.
An underestimated danger ?
A week earlier, members of the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) were killed after taking two prison officers hostage in a prison in Rostov-on-Don, in southwest Russia. . Above all, at the end of March, ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre committed at Crocus City Hall, a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow, which left more than 140 dead.
These attacks recall the dark hours of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when armed fighting in the Caucasus and attacks in Moscow increased, after the Islamist radicalization of the Chechen independence movement.
This Islamist insurgency was put down by Russian forces after many years of combat, and Russia was no longer used to this type of attacks.
But this focus on the Islamist danger has gradually given way to the obsession of Vladimir Putin, herald of Russian power, for Ukraine, culminating with the invasion of February 2022. From now on, the army, the police and the security services are dedicated to the fight against “saboteurs”, “terrorists” and “traitors” in the pay of kyiv.
An “explosive situation” throughout the Russian Caucasus.
Russia has been targeted on multiple occasions by jihadist attacks and attacks.
In October 2023, riots hostile to Israel had already broken out at Makhachkala airport.
Last weekend, several ISIS members were killed after taking two corrections officers hostage in a prison. The jihadist organization also threatened Moscow because of its support for the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Russia has established a regime of anti-terrorism operations across Dagestan and "measures are now being taken to neutralize the militants" who fired on a church, a synagogue and a police station, the official Tass news agency reported .
"In order to ensure the safety of citizens, suppress terrorist crimes and arrest those involved in an armed attack, the head of the Russian FSB department for the Republic of Dagestan decided to conduct an anti-terrorist operation and introduce the anti-terrorism legal regime", explained the authorities in a press release.
The Russian region of Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, was at the heart of the investigation by Russian authorities accused of having served as a rear base for terrorists who left more than 140 dead at Crocus City Hall in Moscow last March. The population of Dagestan is predominantly Muslim.
The region has internal borders with Kalmykia (to the north), Chechnya (to the west) and Stavropol Krai (to the northwest) as well as international borders with Georgia (to the southwest) and Azerbaijan (south).
The attacks in Dagestan demonstrate an “explosive situation” throughout the Russian Caucasus. But Moscow “thinks that the source of terrorism is Ukraine and not the terrorists who grew up in Dagestan. […] The danger is to underestimate the hypothesis of an Islamist threat,” underlines Mr. Chvedov.
The attack has not yet been claimed, but recalls the modus operandi of Islamist groups who had already led a deadly insurrection in the Russian Caucasus in the 2000s.
These attacks recall the dark hours of the late 1990s and early 2000s, when armed fighting in the Caucasus and attacks in Moscow increased, after the Islamist radicalization of the Chechen independence movement.
Multiple confrontations with the Islamists
Russia is also paying for its multiple confrontations with Islamists, according to experts
That ISIS struck Russia should not be surprising: the country constitutes “an obvious target for historical and contemporary reasons,” underlines Jérôme Drevon, jihad expert for the conflict resolution organization Crisis Group. The Islamic State group wants to make Russia pay for its role in Afghanistan, Syria and Africa, as well as its links with Iran, while Russian services are obsessed with Ukraine.
“The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the decade of occupation that followed still arouses fury among many jihadists.”
Moscow then joined the Bashar al-Assad regime in the Syrian civil war against jihadist groups. And in Africa, Russian mercenaries are collaborating with the military in power in Mali against Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
Finally, for several years, Moscow has been moving closer to Tehran, whose Shiite Islam is an abomination for Sunni IS. “IS perceives Russia as the vanguard of the Shiite world,” summarizes Colin Clarke, research director at the Soufan Center in New York. “In the list of those they hate the most, the Shiites are above the Americans, Israel and the so-called apostate regimes.” The group claimed responsibility for the January attack in Kerman, Iran, which left 89 people dead.
Added to this is a deeply antagonistic relationship with Russia's Muslim minorities. Two wars in Chechnya in 1994 and 2000 and the Russian intervention against an Islamist insurgency in Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, have left their mark.
But the Russian services are obsessed with Ukraine....
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THE LAST SECRET OF THE EUROPEAN HUMAN GENOME REVEALED BY A GRAVE | A fabulous discoveryby scientists Eva-Maria Geigl, CNRS research director, Paris Cité University, Oğuzhan Parasayan, post-doctoral researcher, Institut Pasteur and Thierry Grange, CNRS research director, research team leader, Institut Jacques Monod at discover urgently!
The careful analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a collective burial dating back 4,500 years at Bréviandes les Pointes, near Troyes, has revealed an astonishing story that goes far beyond the borders of France. This discovery sheds light on the last stage of the formation of the European genome, still present in current Europeans. The results were recently published in the scientific journal *Science Advances*
The genome, which contains all of an individual's genetic information via their DNA, partly reflects the history of their ancestors. The genome of current Europeans was built over a period of 40,000 years, through various migrations and the resulting interbreeding of populations.
It integrates the complex heritage of small populations of hunter-gatherers who occupied Europe until the arrival, around 8,000 years ago, of populations from Anatolia and the Aegean region, who were at origin of agriculture and animal domestication in the Fertile Crescent. These Neolithic farmers mixed with local hunter-gatherers, contributing significantly to the genome of present-day Europeans.
Finally, at the end of the Neolithic, between 5,000 and 4,000 years BC, nomadic populations from the Pontic steppes, located north of the Black Sea and extending from the Danube to the Urals, migrated towards Europe . They provided the third main component of the genome which persisted among Europeans over the following millennia.
Although DNA sequencing has become a routine procedure today, it remains complex when dealing with ancient genomes. The only remains of these individuals are often fragmented skeletons. Some parts of these skeletons may still contain traces of DNA, but it is fragmented and not very abundant, which represents a methodological challenge for its analysis.
The team at the Jacques Monod Institute took up this challenge by optimizing the methods to obtain reliable results. This makes it possible to analyze ancient genomes using the most advanced bioinformatics and statistical techniques.
Analyzes of the genomes of seven individuals from the Bréviandes tomb, combined with morphological studies of the bones by Inrap anthropologists in Châlons-en-Champagne, revealed the presence of a woman aged over 60, her son aged approximately 20 to 39, his grandson aged 4 to 8, his daughter-in-law aged 20 to 39, as well as another young woman aged 20 to 39 with her newborn and a child aged 6 to 10.
The woman, her newborn, and the 6- to 10-year-old child were not related to the other family, and the child was not related to anyone else in the grave. The fathers of the adult man, the newborn and the isolated child were not buried in this grave. It was therefore not a purely family burial. However, all of the women had a genetic component characteristic of populations from southern France and southwestern Europe, suggesting a common origin that could explain their burial together with their children.
The genome of the adult man was made up half of the French Neolithic genome inherited from his mother, and half of the genome of the steppe nomads north of the Black Sea, inherited from his father. These nomads migrated to central Europe around 5,000 years ago and interbred with local Neolithic populations before continuing their migration to eastern, northern and northwest Europe. It was thus possible to observe, in a way, the introduction in "real time" of this steppe ancestry into the French Neolithic population.
This exceptional situation, unprecedented until then, led to the reconstruction of the part of the adult man's genome that he had inherited from his father, who was absent from the grave and therefore not directly analyzable. The genomic signature of this father places his origin in northwest Europe. A similar result was obtained for another man carrying steppe ancestry, buried in the Aisne valley at the same time. These two men could have belonged to the same population.
On the other hand, the genomic signature of the mother of adult humans is related to Neolithic populations in the south of France. The tomb of Bréviandes therefore testifies to the meeting, in the Paris basin, between individuals migrating from north to south and vice versa at the end of the Neolithic.
The analysis extended to ancient genomes already published from other European regions made it possible to model these migrations of steppe peoples. The results suggest that there were two major waves of interbreeding during the 3rd millennium BCE. The first wave of interbreeding between steppe nomads and Neolithic farmers practicing the cultivation of globular amphoras would have taken place in Eastern and Central Europe around 4,900 years ago.
Their mixed descendants developed a new archaeological culture, called "corded ceramic culture", characterized by clay vessels decorated with corded designs. This culture spread to the east and north of Europe with the mixed Neolithic-steppe populations. During their migrations, these populations bred primarily among themselves rather than with native farming populations.
A second wave of interbreeding with indigenous populations would have taken place 300 to 400 years later in Western Europe, around 4,550 years ago. In both cases, the crossings mainly involved migrant men and indigenous women. It is the beginning of this second wave which was highlighted in the tomb of Bréviandes les Pointes.
The interbreeding of this period, observed in particular in the north of France, played a crucial role in the transformation of the European genome, as shown by the analysis of a burial of an adult man in Saint-Martin-la-Garenne. , in Yvelines.
This man, buried according to the funerary rites of the bell-shaped culture with characteristic bell-shaped vases, bore steppe ancestry. His mother had even more steppe ancestry, indicating marriage networks with other regions whose members had more steppe ancestry. At the end of the Bell Beaker period around -2000, most men carried the Y chromosome of the steppe peoples, which is still the majority among French men today.
In conclusion, the two intensive phases of genetic mixing between steppe and indigenous populations were each associated with the emergence of new cultures, that of corded pottery and that of beakers. These encounters led to the formation of the genome characteristic of current Europeans. |
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RETURN OF THE BOEING STARLINER NASA
STRIKE HARD FROM JUNE 26 2024 ! | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Boeing Starliner June 2024.gif) On June 5, a significant event took place in the field of space exploration: Boeing's Starliner spacecraft took off from Florida with two astronauts on board, Butch Wilmore, 61, and Suni Williams, 58. .
This launch, which experienced several years of delays and numerous last-minute postponements, represents a crucial step for Boeing's space program and for NASA.
A Crucial Demonstration Mission
The Starliner docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on June 6, 2024. Initially, the two astronauts' stay was scheduled to last eight days, but it was extended due to technical problems. These complications include propellant issues and helium leaks, problems that required extensive analysis to ensure the safety of the crew and the ship..![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Starliner 02 June 2024.jpg)
Technical Problems Encountered
Thruster failures and helium leaks caused major concerns. NASA and Boeing had to carry out additional checks to ensure that the spacecraft was ready to return to Earth safely. Steve Stich, a NASA official, said the extra time was needed so teams could "verify the data, do some analysis and make sure we're really ready to go back."
According to Boeing's Mark Nappi, the Starliner's thrusters have finally reached "a good level of performance" and helium leaks "have stabilized and are less significant." These improvements made it possible to set the return date for June 26, 2024.![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Starliner 03 June 2024.jpg) The Return of the Starliner
The Starliner's return is scheduled for June 26 at 02:10 GMT, with a planned landing in New Mexico, in the southwestern United States, at 08:51 GMT. This phase of re-entry into the atmosphere is critical and represents a major technological challenge. The Starliner's heat shield will have to withstand extreme temperatures, reaching around 1,650°C, due to friction with the Earth's atmosphere.![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Starliner 01 June 2024.jpg) The Challenge for Boeing
This mission is of paramount importance to Boeing. The aeronautics giant, which faces production quality problems in its commercial aviation branch, must prove its ability to carry out manned space missions. A success would strengthen Boeing's position in the space sector and allow NASA to have a reliable alternative to SpaceX for transporting its astronauts to the ISS.
In 2014, NASA signed contracts with Boeing and SpaceX to develop vehicles capable of transporting astronauts to the ISS. SpaceX, with its Crew Dragon capsule, has already successfully accomplished this task and has been carrying out regular missions since 2019. Boeing, on the other hand, has experienced significant delays and technical failures which have pushed back the operational entry into service of its Starliner spacecraft.
A Future Partnership with NASA
Once the Starliner is fully operational, NASA plans to alternate flights between SpaceX and Boeing. However, given the lead SpaceX has taken, it is likely that it will continue to carry out the majority of transport missions to the ISS in the near future. However, the success of the Starliner remains crucial to diversifying space transportation options and increasing competition, which is beneficial for innovation and security in the sector.![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Starliner 04 June 2024.jpg)
The atmospheric re-entry phase is undoubtedly the riskiest stage of this mission. At high speed, the Starliner capsule will have to penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, experiencing intense friction which generates extreme temperatures. The heat shield is designed to protect the capsule and its occupants from this infernal heat, but any failure at this point could be catastrophic.
The success of this phase depends on many factors, including the accuracy of the trajectories, the perfect functioning of the navigation and control systems, as well as the structural integrity of the heat shield. NASA and Boeing teams have worked tirelessly to simulate and prepare for this critical phase of the mission, hoping to avoid past mistakes.
Consequences for the Space Industry
The success of the Starliner's return will have significant implications for the space industry. Boeing, by proving the reliability of its vessel, will be able to claim a leading role in future manned missions from NASA and other international space agencies. Additionally, the Starliner could be used for commercial missions, providing an alternative to SpaceX for private companies wanting to send crews or payloads into orbit.
The competition between Boeing and SpaceX is also beneficial for the industry in general, as it incentivizes innovation and constant improvement in space technologies. Each company attempts to outperform the other in terms of reliability, cost and efficiency, which ultimately benefits space agencies and consumers of space services.
Future Outlook for Boeing and NASA
Boeing's future in space depends largely on the success of this mission. If the Starliner's return goes as planned, it will mark a major milestone for Boeing and NASA. This will mean that Boeing has overcome technical challenges and is ready to fully participate in manned space missions.
For NASA, having two reliable suppliers for transporting astronauts to the ISS is crucial. This reduces the risks associated with reliance on a single supplier and ensures mission continuity in the event of a problem with one of the ships. Additionally, the diversity of transportation options allows NASA to better plan and manage missions based on availability and specific needs.
The return of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, scheduled for June 26, 2024, is a key event for the space industry. After years of delays and technical challenges, this mission represents an opportunity for Boeing to demonstrate the reliability and safety of its vessel.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Starliner 05 June 2024.jpg)
The success of this mission would benefit not only Boeing, but also NASA and the entire space industry, by increasing competition and providing more flexibility for future missions.
The Advancement and Reliability of SpaceX Machines
Since 2019, SpaceX has played a crucial role as the primary provider of space transportation services for NASA. With its Crew Dragon capsule, SpaceX not only met expectations but also exceeded predictions in terms of reliability and performance. Here are some key points that illustrate SpaceX's lead and how it could influence the space landscape despite the rise of the Boeing Starliner:
The SpaceX Success Story
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, quickly gained a reputation as a pioneer in commercial spaceflight. After years of intensive development, the Crew Dragon capsule has been certified by NASA to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). Since beginning operations in 2020, Crew Dragon has accumulated an impressive history of successful missions, establishing a high level of reliability.
Regular Operations Towards the ISS
SpaceX currently provides regular crew transport missions to the ISS, with rotations planned several times per year. This sustained pace allows SpaceX to consolidate its operational expertise and maintain consistency in the provision of space services. This consistency is essential for NASA, which can plan its missions with increased predictability and confidence in SpaceX's ability to meet deadlines and safety requirements.
Continuous Innovation at SpaceX
In addition to its operational reliability, SpaceX continues to innovate with advanced technologies such as the Falcon 9 rocket reusability system, which helps significantly reduce launch costs. This approach has allowed SpaceX to not only become competitive in the commercial market but also to push the boundaries of what is technologically possible in the space industry.
Impact on the Spatial Landscape
Despite the advancements of the Boeing Starliner and its potential to become a major player in the field of human spaceflight, SpaceX remains undeniably ahead in terms of mission volume and proven reliability. This reality could lead NASA to continue to favor SpaceX for the majority of its missions to transport astronauts to the ISS, while integrating the Starliner in a complementary role to ensure redundancy and operational flexibility.
SpaceX's significant advance in human spaceflight, with its Crew Dragon capsule, is a testament to its commitment to innovation and safety.
As the Boeing Starliner takes its first steps toward operationality, it remains to be seen how it will position itself in the competitive landscape against SpaceX. In the meantime, NASA benefits from a diversity of space transportation solutions that enhance its ability to maintain a continuous human presence on the ISS and beyond.
While awaiting the outcome of this mission, all eyes are turned to the sky, hoping for a safe return for the astronauts aboard the Starliner. |
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MORE THAN 1000 DEAD DURING THE PILGRIMAGE
IN MECCA DUE TO THE HEAT | More than 1,000 pilgrims died during the great Muslim pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in intense heat, more than half of them illegal pilgrims. The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and every Muslim who can afford it must do it at least once in their life at a time determined by the Muslim calendar, based on lunar cycles.
“52 degrees in the shade”
The gathering, which ended Wednesday, once again took place in the middle of summer, in one of the hottest regions on the globe. Under the blazing sun, temperatures sometimes reached "52 degrees in the shade at 3 p.m. in the central area" of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, according to the Saudi meteorological services, reported by the Al-Arabiya television channel. . According to Courrier International, on Sunday alone, 27,000 cases of heat exhaustion were recorded. This year, around 1.8 million worshipers participated in this large Muslim gathering, of which 1.6 million came from abroad, according to Saudi authorities.
“Without food, water or air conditioning”
However, tens of thousands of pilgrims try to participate without official permission, denying them access to air-conditioned facilities. According to a diplomat, this could explain the very high number of Egyptian victims, many of them being in this case. These people went without food, water or air conditioning for a long time.
At least 60 Jordanians and 68 Indian nationals have also died. Some deaths were due to natural causes, as many pilgrims were elderly. Other deaths are weather-related. Tunisia, Indonesia, Iran, Senegal and Iraqi Kurdistan have also reported deaths.
The effects of heat on the body
When the body can no longer cool itself naturally, extreme heat can cause dehydration, heat stroke, or even death. At the slightest increase in temperature, the body attempts to maintain its core temperature at around 36.8 degrees Celsius, like a thermostat. It activates thermoregulation mechanisms to compensate for this increase: increased blood flow to the skin by dilation of skin vessels and perspiration.
Vasodilation of the vessels allows heat to be evacuated towards the surface of the body, and sweat cools the skin. It can happen that these mechanisms are overwhelmed, leading to symptoms such as fatigue, headache, fever or difficulty sleeping, warning signs of serious problems such as dehydration, which is an excessive reduction of water in the tissues, or sunstroke due to prolonged exposure to the sun.
Heat stroke is the most serious risk, which can lead to death. It corresponds to overheating of the body with a temperature exceeding 40°C. During the hajj, the great Muslim pilgrimage, pilgrims spend hours under the sun, which can quickly exhaust their bodies and deplete their water reserves for sweating. The vital organs (kidneys, heart, brain) then risk “heating up” and “stopping functioning”, leading to death.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) estimates that heat kills around half a million people each year, but says the real toll could be 30 times higher.
In 2015, a tragic stampede...
The organization of this gathering is complicated by global warming and has sometimes been overwhelmed by tragic crowd movements. One of them caused the death of 2,300 people in 2015.
Since then, the authorities have carried out major developments, including an expansion of the Al-Haram mosque, which should be completed next year.
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FRANCE "DIRTY JEW"
BARBARIC AND ANTI-SEMITE RAPE OF A 12-YEAR-OLD GIRL | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Rape Horror France 2024.gif)
"Who could have believed that the methods used by Hamas on October 7 would end up being practiced in France – and by young people of 12 and 13 years old?”, asks Céline Pina in a column.
“This little 12-year-old girl could be my daughter, or yours, or your granddaughter. Her life was crushed by minors fueled with anti-Semitic hatred. The justice system will set in motion and find excuses for the inexcusable . But who is going to repair the broken life of this young girl who comes to cry crocodile tears, I don't care! Tonight, I'm a mother, I'm a French citizen who says. to this little girl: “Forgive us for not having been able to protect you from the madness of men”
After the drama, the emotion. Several days after the gang rape of which a 12-year-old Jewish child was the victim in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), the investigation is progressing. Three young people – all minors – were arrested by the police. Two of them are being indicted for gang rape, death threats, insults and anti-Semitic violence. The latter, aged 13, were placed under a committal warrant by a liberty and detention judge. The third, aged only 12, will be the subject of a provisional judicial educational measure.
The events took place last Saturday June 15. The little girl was then with a friend, in a park which was not far from her home. At the end of the day, the two oldest minors took the little girl to an abandoned building. It is here that the third suspect, aged 12, allegedly joined the two other attackers.
The chilling facts
As soon as she enters, she is bombarded with questions about her religion and the fact that she is hiding that she is Jewish. She claims to have been called a “dirty Jew” on several occasions.
In her complaint, she indicates that she was kicked, slapped and had her hair pulled. One of the three teenagers threatens to burn her.
She claims to have then been raped several times by two of the three teenagers. The facts were denounced by the young girl on Saturday evening. According to a police source, the minor explained that she was approached by three teenagers and dragged into a shed while she was in a park near her home with a friend. The suspects hit her and “forced anal and vaginal penetration on her, fellatio, while making death threats and anti-Semitic remarks,” said the same source. Her friend managed to identify two of the attackers. They also asked her to give them 200 euros or they would attack her and her family.
According to the victim's initial statements, one of the attackers filmed the scene, which took place in an abandoned premises. Another teenager threatened to kill her and burn her if she reported the facts to the police.
According to the police intervention report that Le Parisien was able to consult, one of the attackers added that on Sunday at 4 p.m., he "would return to the same place" and that the victim had to give him the sum of 200 euros. otherwise bad luck would happen to him and his family if he knows where she lives.”
One of the attackers was known to the victim: he was a former boyfriend with whom the girl had had a relationship which had ended just a few days before the attack. To the investigators, the person concerned claimed to have become angry over the fact that the young girl had not told him that she was of the Jewish faith. The suspects were identified by the victim's friend: two of the three suspects played in the same football club as him. The police also have anti-Semitic images on the suspect's phone (notably a photo showing a burned Israeli flag). The second suspect explained that the victim had made negative comments about Palestine. But we don't know more about their origin...
Reactions
“Sordid”, “abject”: in the middle of the electoral campaign, this affair arouses strong condemnation from politicians.
The SOS Racisme association provided “all its support to the victim and his family” in this “sordid affair”, recalling the “worrying” increase in anti-Semitic acts since October 7. Wednesday morning, the Nous Vivrons collective, born the day after the bloody Hamas attack, called for demonstrations that same day at 6:30 p.m. in Paris. “This anti-Semitic rape is a continuation of a climate hostile to Jews, fueled in particular by irresponsible political declarations, aimed at fanning the embers and fueling hatred of Jews for several months,” accused the collective.
Spike in anti-Semitic acts
In the Jewish community, the facts denounced by the young girl caused great emotion. The president of the Central Consistory, Elie Korchia, expressed on “No one can be exonerated in the face of this unprecedented anti-Semitic surge,” the chief rabbi of France Haïm Korsia commented on X, saying he was “horrified.” On the same social network, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) expressed its "immense emotion at the tragic rape of this young girl", warning that it will follow "with vigilance all developments in this extremely worrying affair" .
"Rape is a tool of destruction in the service of hatred and when children rape children, it is also society as a whole which must ask itself the question of its responsibility in the face of violence, anti-Semitism and misogyny in work in our country", reacted the Women's Foundation. “It’s a despicable act, we can’t think that it still exists,” Jacques Kossowski, LR mayor of Courbevoie, told AFP. “What I hope is that justice can firmly condemn these attackers, whatever their age,” continued the councilor.
Anti-Semitic acts soared in France in the first quarter of 2024, according to government figures, which reported “366 anti-Semitic acts” recorded between January and March, an increase of 300% compared to the first three months of 2023. In January, Crif reported a sharp increase in anti-Semitic acts in France, which quadrupled in one year, going from 436 in 2022 to 1,676 in 2023, with an “explosion” after October 7.
The director of Atlantico, Jean-Sébastien Ferjou, returning to the rape of a 12-year-old girl in Courbevoie, specified: "There is an over-representation of young people of North African origin in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe." A study conducted by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP) in 2015 indicates that around 30% of perpetrators of anti-Semitic acts in France are identified as being of Muslim religion or of Arab origin. , although Muslims represent only 6-8% of the total population. We do not know the identity of the three minors involved.
The role of LFI in the explosion of anti-Semitism.
“LFI’s extremely violent speech on the conflict in Gaza has very worrying deleterious effects on our soil.”
“Anti-Semitic dimension in the choice of victim, reference to Palestine to justify the horrors committed, the young attackers implicated in Courbevoie would make good Hamas fighters. They master the communication codes in any case,” denounces Céline Pina. |
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SHOCKING REVELATION FROM THE NSA PROTECT YOUR SMARTPHONE FROM DEADLY ATTACKS ! | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA3/All Spy Phone.jpg) Mobile phones, veritable modern digital Swiss army knives, have become prime targets for cybercriminals.
These devices contain a wealth of personal data, photos, messages, banking information and much more, making them an ideal hunting ground for hackers always on the lookout for new prey.
With the increase in sophistication of attacks, smartphone security has become a major concern.
The scale of the threat!
A study carried out by Kaspersky reveals the scale of attacks on smartphones: in 2023, nearly 33.8 million malicious attacks have been recorded.
Mobile malware, constantly evolving, is designed to steal data, spy on users or even demand ransoms.
Users are often caught off guard by these invisible threats that lurk in seemingly innocent applications or in links and attachments received via email or text message.
NSA recommendations
Faced with this growing threat, the US National Security Agency (NSA) published in 2022 an updated guide to best practices for securing mobile devices.
Among these recommendations, a simple but very effective tip is highlighted: completely restart your smartphone every week.
This manipulation, childishly simple, proves to be extremely effective in interrupting malicious software while it is running.
Why is rebooting so effective?
Restarting your smartphone weekly allows you to reset the device's software components and purge the RAM of any malicious code that may be hiding there.
Additionally, it forces apps to re-request permissions to access data and phone functions, reducing the chances of unauthorized access to your sensitive information.
This practice, although simple, helps strengthen the overall security of your device by disrupting malicious activities that rely on persistence in active memory.
A comprehensive approach to security
However, weekly rebooting alone is not a miracle solution. It must be integrated into an overall cybersecurity strategy to be truly effective.
Here are some additional measures to adopt!
Regular updates:
Make sure your smartphone's operating system (OS) and all your apps are regularly updated.
Updates often contain important security fixes that protect against newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Installation from trusted sources:
Download and install apps only from official stores, such as Google Play for Android and the App Store for iOS. Official stores have verification processes to detect malicious applications, although this is not foolproof.
Be careful with links and attachments:
Be extremely careful with links and attachments in emails, text messages or on social media.
Phishing attacks are common and can fool even the most savvy users.
Using strong passwords:
Choose strong, unique passwords for your accounts and enable two-factor authentication (2FA) where possible for an extra layer of security.
Screen lock:
Enable a screen lock, whether by password, fingerprint or facial recognition. This prevents unauthorized physical access to your phone.
Regular data backup:
Make regular backups of your important data. If your device is lost or hacked, you will be able to recover your information without too much difficulty.
Vigilance on public WiFi networks:
Avoid using public WiFi networks for sensitive transactions or to access personal information. Public networks are often less secure and can be monitored by hackers.
Strengthen security through application management
In addition to these measures, it is crucial to carefully manage the apps installed on your phone. Uninstall apps you no longer use.
These unused applications may have vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. Additionally, regularly review the permissions granted to each application to ensure that they are not accessing sensitive information without good reason.
Cybersecurity awareness
Cybersecurity awareness and education play a vital role in protecting smartphones. Understanding risks and best practices can help users make informed decisions.
For example, being aware of common phishing techniques, fake alert messages or malicious apps can significantly reduce the chances of infection.
The importance of rigorous digital hygiene
Beyond technical recommendations, the adoption of rigorous digital hygiene is essential.
This includes practices such as, Do not share your passwords!
Even with people you trust, avoid sharing your passwords.
Use password managers:
Password managers can generate and store strong, unique passwords for each of your accounts.
Enable security alerts:
Many services offer security alerts that notify you of any suspicious activity on your accounts.
Monitor your bank accounts:
Check your bank accounts regularly for suspicious transactions.
In conclusion, smartphones have become prime targets for cybercriminals due to the quantity and sensitivity of the information they contain.
The NSA recommends restarting your phone every week to stop malware, but this practice must be combined with other security measures to be truly effective.
By taking a holistic approach to cybersecurity and following best practices, users can significantly reduce risks and protect their devices against growing threats. Vigilance and rigorous digital hygiene are the keys to ensuring the security of our precious smartphones. |
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MEETING SITES AND APPLICATIONS USE SCIENCE
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![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA2/Dating Seduction.jpg) Thanks to genetics and neuroscience, new generation dating applications could calculate the degree of attraction between two strangers. Could we speak of the prescience of love ?
Could we know in advance if two strangers will like each other ?
Candidates for love with the beautiful days that are looming will be legions in profiles on the web. Yes, one more reason to turn to dating sites! And even more during a period of confinement where you cannot sit on a café terrace !
This superpower is more than ever desired. And now Anglo-Saxon companies boast of having finally found the solution to predict without fail if two people will match.
They are called Digid8, DNA Romance, Pheramor or Instant Chemistry, names that evoke the chemical industry more than the emotional market.
Normal: these recent dating applications now offer to anticipate the level of attraction between individuals thanks to biological parameters.
In the eyes of their creators our body would indeed be conditioned from birth, causing us to invariably crack on one type of person rather than another. Unconscious compatibility governed by genetics and biochemistry, therefore scientifically measurable.
"Genetic match making" instead of matchmakers ?
"Humans have fantasized about being able to make such predictions for centuries," says Pascal de Sutter, professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the Catholic University of Louvain, in Belgium, and consultant for the reality TV show "Married at first glance ”, which unites for the life of the people who have never seen each other.
In the villages, there were in particular matchmakers, responsible for connecting single people according to precise criteria guaranteeing a reciprocal and lasting attraction. Today, science gives us several indications on what will make a meeting work or not. ”
"By analyzing the DNA of couples of several species of mammals, including humans, we make the strange observation that the partners do not seem to come together completely by accident," says Ivan Rodriguez, professor of neurogenetics at the University of Geneva (UNIGE).
This happens at the receptors produced by genes linked to the immune system, which have several distinct types. There is an overrepresentation of couples whose partners have different types of these receptors. ”
Guided by molecules like in animals ?
The interpretations that can explain this pairing remain highly debated and controversial, but for many researchers, the phenomenon would respond to an imperative of evolution.
"From the point of view of the survival of the species, it is probably more interesting to see the birth of babies with a diverse bouquet of receptors of the immune system, in order to be able to better cope with pathogens and aggressions from the outside world", clarifies Ivan Rodriguez. But then, how would our genome, working in the shadows, drive our attractions?
The mechanisms involved in these guided choices of partners remain mysterious, recognize the specialists. Some evoke the action of pheromones, molecules which one secretes, capable of modifying the behavior in the other when there is compatibility. Pheramor, one of the futuristic dating apps, claims to create couples through the analysis of these chemical compounds in its users. However, the scientific consensus on the issue is not there. ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA2/Dating Seduction2.jpg)
"This communication of molecules has been proven in many animals, but it has not yet been demonstrated in humans," notes Bernard Sablonnière, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Faculty of Medicine in Lille, France, and author of The chemistry of feelings (Ed. Odile Jacob).
"There is perhaps a single molecule, produced by the glands under the armpit, which is technically entitled to the title of pheromone with us, reports Ivan Rodriguez. But for our species, there is no known pheromone that will induce stereotypical sexual behavior in a partner. ”
If the trail of pheromones is ultimately quite unlikely, the hypothesis of an unconscious communication between our bodies remains preferred. The most obvious channel, then?
Our nose, being proven that "smells have a strong discriminating power and that an attraction at this level is necessary for a relationship", underlines Francesco Bianchi-Demicheli, professor at UNIGE and specialist in sexual medicine. There would thus be people who inspire a rapprochement and others who rather make you want to take the tangent.
However, here again, it may not be just a matter of personal taste in terms of perfume, notes Ivan Rodriguez: “Body odor is, among other things, the product of our microbial environment, since our skin is covered with millions of bacteria. These latter produce organic compounds which can reflect our bouquet of genes linked to the immune system. Some researchers believe that we would be able to unconsciously sense these bouquets of receptors and preferentially orient ourselves towards the individuals most complementary to us in this area. ”
The resonance between two beings...
So it's a fact: we are still under pressure from natural selection. So, with these apps of the future, have we finally invented the perfect matchmaker ?
Far from it, temper the experts, like Bernard Sablonnière, for whom "there are more neuropsychological parameters than biological to explain the attraction between two beings".
The sensory factors involved in attraction also appeal to the visual, hearing and touch, the last very important point in the process of seduction for our species. Humans display extremely complex sexuality.
"Pheromones can certainly play a considerable role, but that is not enough to guarantee agreement. In love there is an inconsistent, variable part, full of surprise, completely rejected from this experience. ", Adds sexologist Antoine Spath, author of Foiling the traps of manipulators and narcissistic perverts, it's clever.
With us, a whole "cultural dimension is added to the factors governing the choice of partner, which will weigh heavily in the face of a small biological fact," explains Ivan Rodriguez. On this point too, a certain predictability would be measurable, advance psychology and sociology, which have identified an almost infallible magnet: homogamy.
"This observation is not very politically correct, even if it is a reality, assumes Pascal de Sutter. People from the same socio-cultural background are more likely to get together, because this common origin makes it easier to understand each other and alleviates the challenges to be met in the couple. ”
Demonstration is done with dating sites: while these spaces theoretically allow the elimination of social barriers and bringing together all categories of the population, the couples who form there are rather homogamous on arrival, as the pointed out the Swedish researcher Marie Bergström in her book "The new laws of love: Sexuality, couple and meetings in the digital age" (Ed. La Découverte), in 2019.
Cannot be programmed by an algorithm !
And if not, what about personality as the engine of seduction?
Do opposites attract each other like yin and yang, North Pole and South Pole?
Affirmative!
At least at the start. "Complementary profiles, with centers of interest, divergent values and tastes, flaws and unshared qualities, often generate an attraction because difference, the unknown, are desirable," notes Pascal de Sutter.
They feed each other in the early days, but for a long-term relationship, the science is pretty clear, similar personalities work much better. ”
“The olfactory signal is a powerful actor in history, as well as the weight of culture, of collective thought, which freeze codes of attractiveness. However, we must not forget the emotional dimension of desire. Little-known equations remain unanswered to explain the feeling of compatibility. ”
“Charm is a parameter that cannot be defined scientifically. The resonance between two beings cannot be programmed by an algorithm.
Of course, with such experience, you can love yourself, but love yourself well, just good. The current which passes between two beings is not to love each other "just" well. It is an elusive, mysterious part of us that makes us love each other for a lifetime. ", Says Patricia Delahaie, psychosociologist, author of How to make the good meeting.
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FIRST MAJOR FIRE OF THE YEAR RAVES LOS ANGELES AREA | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Fire Los Angeles June 2024.gif) On Sunday, June 9, 2024, strong winds propelled the flames through the dry brush of the mountains along Interstate 5, north of Los Angeles. Authorities immediately warned residents in the path of the fire to prepare for possible evacuation if it spread further.
This first major wildfire of the year in Los Angeles County quickly covered an area of more than 60 square kilometers.
The day before, this fire had already forced the evacuation of more than 1,200 campers, off-road enthusiasts and hikers from the Hungry Valley recreational area. Dubbed the Post Fire, the fire was only 2% contained as of Sunday, and no casualties had been reported. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the fire.
Firefighters, facing sweltering conditions and steep terrain, raced to control hot spots created by unpredictable winds that blew embers in front of the flames. Kenichi Haskett, section chief for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said gusty winds also hampered aerial crews' efforts to drop water and fire retardant.
"When it's windy, the water disperses everywhere except where it's needed, which makes our job more difficult..." Mr. Haskett said.
Meanwhile, in Northern California, another wildfire, dubbed the Point Fire, triggered evacuation orders and warnings for a sparsely populated area near Lake Sonoma.
This fire, which started on Sunday, released a huge plume of black smoke as it spread through brush and woods, about 130 kilometers north of San Francisco.
The Point Fire was 15% contained.
The Southern California fire started Saturday afternoon near Interstate 5 in Gorman, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Los Angeles.
The flames were heading toward Pyramid Lake, a popular destination for boaters, which was closed as a precaution on Father's Day. Although no homes were threatened Sunday, authorities warned residents of Castaic, a community of 19,000, that they may have to evacuate if the fire spreads south.
“If you are in a warning zone, prepare a “go bag” with night clothes, your cell phone, medications and glasses. Fuel your car and be ready to evacuate,” advised Haskett.
Weather forecasts from the National Weather Service in Los Angeles called for low humidity and gusts of up to 50 mph throughout the day, with winds likely to strengthen after sunset.
About 120 kilometers to the east, the Hesperia Fire, covering an area of 5 square kilometers, prompted road closures and evacuation warnings. This fire broke out Saturday near the mountain communities of San Bernardino County and was 19% contained as of Sunday evening.
Weather conditions, characterized by low humidity and strong winds, combined with difficult terrain, made firefighting efforts particularly arduous. Local authorities continue to closely monitor the situation and provide regular updates to affected residents.
Firefighters are working around the clock to contain the flames and protect lives and property. Crews on the ground and in the air are working to limit the spread of the fire despite the challenges posed by the weather conditions.
Coordination efforts between different fire agencies are essential to effectively manage this crisis.
Los Angeles County has mobilized all available resources to support firefighting operations. Authorities encourage residents to stay informed and follow instructions from emergency services.
The safety of residents and firefighters remains the top priority.
As California enters fire season, officials are calling for vigilance and preparation.
Collaboration between residents, firefighters and government agencies is crucial to minimizing the impacts of wildfires. Prevention and preparedness efforts, as well as rapid responses to emergencies, will play a key role in protecting communities and natural resources.
In summary, the wildfires currently ravaging the Los Angeles area and other parts of California highlight the importance of disaster preparedness and rapid response.
Residents are encouraged to remain alert and follow instructions from authorities to ensure the safety of themselves and their loved ones. The collective efforts of all stakeholders are essential to overcoming these challenges and protecting communities from the dangers of wildfires. |
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FRANCE THE CHALLENGES OF DISSOLUTION
OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Challenges of Dissolution France 2024.jpg) "I have decided to give you back the choice of our parliamentary future through the vote,” announced the Head of State this Sunday, June 9, declaring the dissolution of the National Assembly and calling early legislative elections on June 30 and July 7th. This declaration follows the historic score achieved by Jordan Bardell in the European elections, and that, much weaker, of the presidential majority with Valérie Hayer
The European elections have transformed into a referendum against Macron, thus becoming a tool of opposition to the current government and an electoral springboard for the competing political forces. This nationalization of the vote was particularly evident during the recent televised debates (Bardella-Attal, Le Pen-Macron debate proposal), recalling the presidential election of 2022 and perhaps offering a foretaste of that of 2027
. President of the Republic justified his decision to dissolve the National Assembly and send voters to the polls by invoking the need for “clarity in the debates”. The political situation was complex for him, with a minority government despite the institutional advantages of the constitution, such as article 49.3, and growing rumors of motions of no confidence. The multiplication of parliamentary groups in the Assembly, now ten in number, also made it difficult to obtain stable majorities to vote on certain pieces of legislation. In addition, the result of these European elections, often perceived as a “mid-term vote”, added to the pressure.
This dissolution reflects Macron's penchant for disruptive decisions and constitutes a strong political act, giving voters a voice again, particularly for the legislative elections, where the National Assembly plays a central role as national representation.
The main issues for the National Assembly concern the sustainability of the political fragmentation observed since June 2022, with its ten parliamentary groups, and its impact on the organization of parliamentary work.
For political parties, several issues are emerging:
For the RN: A secret poll commissioned by the Republicans in December 2023 placed the RN in a majority position in the event of early legislative elections. The real issue is whether the RN will succeed in gaining power by obtaining a real majority in the National Assembly, necessary to obtain the confidence of the government. The exceptional result of the RN in the European elections - 16 points ahead of the current majority - is a real springboard for these early elections.
On the left: These elections will determine the new balance of power within the Nupes, with a social democratic left reinforced by the third positioning of the PS-PP list in the European elections, the debacle of the ecologists and the new weight of LFI. Discussions for a common list have already been discussed.
For Renaissance: Faced with questions about the post-Macron era from his re-election in 2022, Renaissance will have to define its political positioning and consider electoral alliances with the Republicans at the local level. Stéphane Séjourné, SG of Renaissance, has already announced that the majority would not present a candidate against outgoing deputies “part of the Republican field”. The presidential party went from a large majority in 2017 to a relative majority in 2022, risking now a move to the opposition.
The decision to dissolve the Assembly can be seen as an admission of weakness in the face of the threat of censorship. The 2024 European elections have indeed marked a return of the left-right divide and a pro- or anti-EU divide, but it is the rise to power of the RN which will influence the positioning of the majority. A more liberal and conservative turn could be adopted, in particular to attract LR deputies, due to the realignment towards the right of macronism.
Cohabitation with the RN is possible and would reshuffle the cards between the president and his prime minister.
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SWIMWEAR AND LINGERIE SITES NO LONGER ERASER THE STRETCH MARKS OF THEIR MODELS
INTERNET USERS TO APPLAUD ! | ![](/images/stories/Articles/model no perfect01.jpg)
What, unretouched photos to sell clothes ?
But where is the world going ?
Summer is here and most of us are hoping to spend a few days at the beach soaking up the sun. Which means, yes, buying a swimsuit, an ordeal if ever there was one.
On the Internet, most of the models wearing the swimsuits or lingerie you want to buy are perfectly tanned.
It's quite difficult, and actually a bit depressing, to rely on these images to find a swimsuit suitable for an average human being.
Customers of its sites are pleased that the sales site has not “erased” the defects and stretch marks of its models.
Internet users rush to Twitter to thank the shopping site for reminding us that we can look hot in one or two pieces with stretch marks. Here is finally the "body positive" attitude that is arriving.
This is not the first time that the “flaws” of models spared by photographers are celebrated by the public .
However, in some countries like Italy, it is still better to erase these small marks of humanity from photos. Whether you are thin or fuller, you have stretch marks. Let's hope that in the future these marks will be preserved in the photos and that we can be happy that the models are presented as "normal" people!.
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TIDAL RISE OF THE EXTREME RIGHT IN EUROPE
IN FRANCE MACRON PLAYS WITH FIRE
WITH THE DISSOLUTION OF THE ASSEMBLY | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Macron Disolve.jpg) "The wave is sweeping across the whole of Europe: from Italy to Denmark, from Austria to the Netherlands.(........) That of the “Radical Right”. “Nationalist” ? the obvious. “Sovereignist” ? It’s more complicated: it’s no longer a question of leaving Europe, but of changing it.
Depending on the country, it can vary in its forms, but everywhere it is nourished by a main cause: the concern that uncontrolled immigration poses to the balance of our societies, the threat that political Islam poses to the future of our civilization. This is what Europeans teach us,” according to Alexis Brézet in Le Figaro.
And France is on the podium!
Frontist tidal wave in France in effect this Sunday, June 9 at the end of the European election. By gathering 31.4% of the votes cast, Jordan Bardella's list is almost 17 points ahead of that of the presidential majority led by Valérie Hayer, who came second with 14.6%.
A generalization of the RN vote
For his second European campaign, the rising star of the nationalist right thus succeeded in considerably expanding the electorate of the party of which he took the reins in September 2021. While for nearly three decades, the frontist vote was concentrated in the In the north and south of France, few territories are today resisting the breakthrough of the RN. Proof of this is that in Sunday's European elections, the list led by the young wolf of Marine Le Pen exceeds 30% of the votes cast in more than sixty French departments...
In the north-east of France, where the RN flirts with the symbolic threshold of 50%. In Haute-Marne for example, more than 47% of voters who went to the polling station placed their trust in the RN. In Aisne, where the poverty rate exceeds the national average by three points, the percentage even climbs to 50.6%. Voters from Gard, Vaucluse, Var and even Corse-du-Sud also largely supported Jordan Bardella.
The big winner of this European election, the National Rally, for example, incontestably validates its roots in Gironde. And not just a little: the list led by Jordan Bardella came first in 522 Gironde municipalities, or 97.6% of the municipalities in the department.
In the Médoc, a political stronghold of the extreme right on which the Lepéniste party relies to launch its attempt to conquer power in Gironde, the RN almost achieved an absolute majority in Lesparre (49.8%) and Pauillac (48. 05%) for the main cities.
Another strong territory for the RN, Blayais, with significant scores in Blaye (37.31%), Saint-André-de-Cubzac (39.34%) and Saint-Savin, the stronghold of MP Edwige Diaz where he reached 53.57%. Note a real hit in Braud-et-Saint-Louis, the town hosting the Blayais nuclear power plant, where the RN reached 60.8% of the vote and where Reconquête stood at 6.5%.
In only five departments does the far-right party not come out on top: in Paris (75), in Seine-Saint-Denis (93), in Hauts-de-Seine (92), in Val-de- Marne (94) and Martinique. In the capital, voters placed Raphaël Glucksmann in the lead (22.86%), followed by Valérie Hayer (17.72%) and Manon Aubry (16.76%).
32%: this is the percentage of votes collected by Jordan Bardella's list in the European ballot. For her part, Marion Maréchal and her Reconquest list reached 5.3% of the votes. With the Les Patriotes list, the far right totals nearly 40% of the votes in France in this European election on June 9, 2024. A historic score.
An electoral slap for Renaissance which led Emmanuel Macron, soundly defeated - despite his involvement in the campaign - to dissolve the National Assembly. "Earthquake", "thunderclap", a "crazy" or "extreme" bet... The French press is competing with superlatives this Monday, June 10, 2024 the day after the large victory of the far right in the European elections and this response from Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly.
Dissolution a high-risk strategy
This is certainly the sixth time in the history of the Fifth Republic that the weapon of dissolution, provided for by Article 12 of the Constitution, has been drawn by the president. But this sword, which allows a political crisis to be resolved by a return to the polls, is double-edged.
If Emmanuel Macron respects the spirit of article 12, "which provides for dissolution in the event of a political event or crisis", "Macron is however playing with fire". “A real leap into the void for a president exasperated by the disenchantment of the French. A sin of pride,” even comments Christophe Jakubyszyn, columnist in Les Echos.
Emmanuel Macron makes the French judges of a new and unprecedented political situation, with a National Rally led by Jordan Bardella which obtained more than double the votes of the presidential majority. This is a new and exceptional political situation. Let him not see the arrival of the RN in government as a lesser evil!
That he does not privately believe that his arrival in power would have the merit of demonstrating the unpreparedness of the extreme right to power. On the contrary, the French have not only expressed in their choice a sanction vote but a real desire for policy change and an assumed choice.
These French people feel dispossessed of their identity, of their purchasing power, of their ability to influence decision-making mechanisms. They also testify to a feeling of loss of influence of France, which no longer has its splendor of yesteryear.
Poll result: between 243 and 305 seats for the RN
At the end of 2023, the Les Républicains party commissioned a survey from the Ipsos institute on the voting intentions of the French if legislative elections took place very soon.
Unveiled in March 2024 by L'Obs, the results showed that a real shift had taken place in France and that the National Rally still had (large) room for progress at the Palais Bourbon. At the same time, the poll resulted in a massive disavowal for the Macronist camp. If its conclusions applied on June 30 and July 7, 2024, the date of the next legislative elections, the balance would therefore be even more upset than in 2022.
According to this survey on very hypothetical legislative elections at the time it was revealed, the National Assembly could thus lean greatly to the extreme right, or even pass into an RN majority.
According to the answers obtained by Ipsos, between 243 and 305 seats could be won by the formation of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. The absolute majority being at 289, the party with the flame would therefore not be far from having control over the legislative power and, therefore, from seeing one of its members be appointed Prime Minister and others be appointed within the government .
The National Rally may find itself with an absolute majority on the evening of July 7. President Emmanuel Macron will then have to appoint a Prime Minister or a Prime Minister from the political party that won and it will be cohabitation.
Thus the RN could acquire in Matignon what it lacks: a culture of government. They will have the means to prove themselves.
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VISIT AND STATE DINNER IN FRANCE
WITH JOE AND JILL BIDEN | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Cple Macron and Biden.jpg) The state dinner hosted by the French presidential couple in honor of Jill and Joe Biden exceeded all expectations. Joe Biden's visit to France, marking the 80th anniversary of the Landing of the Allied Forces in Normandy, ended in apotheosis with this dinner, the highest level of French protocol, which took place this Saturday June 8 at the Élysée , in honor of the American president and his wife Jill, invited by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron.
The guests were carefully selected, with prominent figures from the French government in attendance, including Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti, as well as influential ministers Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire and Catherine Vautrin. Rachida Dati, radiant in a sumptuous black dress embroidered with gold and perched on high-heeled pumps, once again captivated attention after her notable appearances at the Cannes Film Festival.
The couple Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni, the latter resplendent in a perfectly fitted white dress, were also present. Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, wore an elegant green dress, also embodying French chic.
Civil society was also well represented, with personalities such as Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, François-Henri Pinault, CEO of Kering, accompanied by his wife Salma Hayek, and Axel Dumas, CEO of Hermès. Pharrell Williams, dressed in a beige jacket and a Texas cowboy hat, attracted all eyes alongside his wife Helene Lasichanh. Thomas Pesquet, Luc Besson, Léa Seydoux, Claude Lelouch, Laurence Ferrari and his companion Renaud Capuçon, as well as Tony Estanguet also made a remarkable entrance on the red carpet of the courtyard of the Élysée.
The menu lived up to the event: a starter of “Gardens of Île-de-France and Provence” salad with a patidou vinaigrette, followed by a chicken massaged with flowers, accompanied by artichokes and herbs. and a sweet chamomile chicken sauce.
For the cheese, a variety of young and matured Ossau-Iraty, Brillat-Savarin in a cereal crust, before concluding with a chocolate-raspberry-rose dessert with “bramble flesh” coulis. The wines served were just as prestigious: Veuve Clicquot Brut Carte Jaune champagne, Château d'Esclans Garrus 2022, Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru 2018, Château Margaux 2006 Grand Cru Classé, and to top it all off, Veuve Clicquot “La Grande Dame” champagne vintage 2015.
This evening, full of memories, was punctuated by numerous toasts to Franco-American friendship, creating an atmosphere that was both festive and solemn, without the slightest false note.
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INDONESIA A MOTHER FOUND
IN THE BELLY OF A PYTHON | This is a particularly frightening news item. A mother of four, missing since last Thursday, was found dead inside a python which had swallowed her whole. Farida, 45, was discovered by her husband and villagers in Kalempang, South Sulawesi province, on Friday inside a reticulated python measuring about five meters.
The villagers, while exploring the area, quickly spotted a python with a large abdomen, as reported by Suardi Rosi, the village chief. “They decided to open her stomach, and Farida’s head appeared,” he explained. Farida was still fully clothed inside the snake.
Although these events are extremely rare, several people in Indonesia have been killed by pythons in recent years. Last year in Tinanggea district in Southeast Sulawesi, residents killed an eight-meter python that had strangled and devoured a farmer.
In 2018, a 54-year-old woman was found lifeless inside a seven-meter python in the town of Muna, also located in Southeast Sulawesi. The previous year, a farmer in West Sulawesi was eaten by a four-meter python on an oil palm plantation.
These tragedies are a reminder of the potential danger of pythons in some rural areas of Indonesia where encounters with these giant reptiles can sometimes end tragically.
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VLADIMIR PUTIN’S THREATS
TO DELIVERY WEAPONS TO THIRD COUNTRIES
AGAINST WESTERN STRATEGIC INTERESTS | An eye for an eye, a missile for a missile after more than two years of war in Ukraine ?
In his standoff with the West, Vladimir Putin advocates the principle of reciprocity.
If the West authorizes Ukraine to strike Russia with its long-range missiles, the master of the Kremlin assures:
it will deliver weapons to third countries likely to hit Western interests.
A way, according to him, to respond to the authorization of Western countries to use weapons to strike in Russia.
"If someone considers it possible to supply such weapons in the combat zone to strike our territory (...), why should we not have the right to supply our weapons of the same type to regions of the world where there will be hit the sensitive installations of the countries which act in this way against Russia ?”, launched Vladimir Putin.
The latter spoke during an interview with around fifteen press agencies, on the sidelines of the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum.
But what scope do these threats have ?
In addition, Russia is preparing to conduct naval exercises in the Caribbean during the summer.
Coordinated military maneuvers with Cuba and Venezuela, the two Latin American countries which, since 2022, have unequivocally supported the war led by Moscow in Ukraine.
This is not new, as Russia has already participated in naval exercises in the Caribbean in 2008.
And more recently, the Russian fleet has conducted training with Iran and China in the Gulf of Oman.
An opportunity for Moscow to try to convince its allies that despite two years of war in Ukraine, Russia is still capable of projecting its military power anywhere in the world.
Which countries are involved and which weapons ?
Vladimir Putin remained vague, the primary goal remaining "to scare Western leaders and to fuel the speeches of those who want to stop supporting Ukraine militarily", estimates Jeff Hawn.
By remaining as vague as possible, the Russian president allows everyone to interpret his threats in the light of their own fears, particularly those of public opinion in the West.
Russia and the Democratic Republic of Congo also signed a military cooperation agreement in March.
In an unstable regional context, the arrival of new Russian weapons could constitute an additional destabilizing factor. Other countries to which Russia could provide additional military equipment include Iran and North Korea. However, would these countries be ready to attack Western “strategic interests”?
This remains uncertain. Belarus represents, in this regard, an example of an ally reluctant to engage too far in a war against the West. But would these countries agree to strike Western “strategic interests” ?
Nothing is less sure. Belarus represents, in this regard, a textbook case of an “ally” unwilling to venture too far on the path to war against the West.
Moscow therefore seems to be increasing the threats of extension of the conflict in Ukraine to other horizons and is dangling a risk of proliferation of weapons in the hands of Washington's enemies.
On both sides it is in any case a PR operation and a rhetoric of one-upmanship which does not predict anything good.
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80 YEARS OF THE LANDINGS IN NORMANDY
THE ALLIES WITHOUT RUSSIA BUT WITH UKRAINE | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/D Day France 2024.gif)
Joe Biden landed on Wednesday morning at Paris-Orly airport, thus opening a French sequence centered on the major international ceremony on Thursday at Omaha Beach, celebrating the 80th anniversary of June 6, 1944, the famous D-Day. Eight decades later, on the same beach of “bloody” Omaha, the Allies meet again this Thursday, June 6, 2024 without Russia in Normandy, but alongside the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky, to celebrate the victory over Nazism as war rages again in Europe.
Nearly 130,000 soldiers from allied countries but also from Germany were buried in around thirty cemeteries in Normandy. But thousands of other graves also tell the horror of war, those of civilian victims. From June to September 1944, 20,000 civilians died from bombs in Normandy towns.
World leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, King Charles III of England and his son Prince William, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, take part in a significant day of tributes. This day began with a British ceremony in Ver-sur-Mer, Calvados, early in the morning. A ceremony followed by a speech by the American president. “Here, on the shores of Normandy, the battle between freedom and tyranny would be decided,” said US President Joe Biden. “If you want to know the price of freedom, look around you,” continued the American president, pointing to the white crosses of the American cemetery which overlooks Omaha beach, where 2,500 GIs were killed or injured on June 6 1944.
Then after a strong tribute to the freedom fighters, the soldiers of D Day, Joe Biden drew a parallel with the situation in Ukraine to dispel any ambiguity about the arrival of the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky and the historical absence of Russia.
“Isolationism was not the answer eighty years ago and it is not the answer today,” he added, using the situation in Ukraine as an example. “Ukrainians fight with incredible courage, they endure enormous attacks, but they never give up. »
The announcement of the arrival of President Volodymyr Zelensky to the commemorations of the landing of June 6, 1944 in Normandy, has in fact revived questions about the troubled role of the former Soviet socialist republic vis-à-vis the German occupier during the Second War. worldwide.
In 1939, the German-Soviet pact sealed the division of Poland between Berlin and Moscow. Ukraine then saw its western borders expand to include Bessarabia (now Moldova) and other annexed territories, leading to forced Sovietization and the Holodomor famines, which caused between 2 ,6 and 5 million deaths. When, in 1941, Nazi Germany and its allies launched Operation Barbarossa and invaded all of Poland and Ukraine, local populations initially saw it as liberation from the Soviet yoke. In Western Ukraine, nationalist groups, already repressed between the two wars, then tried to take advantage of local resentment to establish a Ukrainian state under the leadership of Stepan Bandera, subject to Berlin...
This Thursday, June 6, 2024, heads of state, 250 veterans and a large audience pay tribute to those who gave their lives to drive out Nazi barbarity and remind people of what war is. 80 years later, it is back, at the gates of Europe.
“Today we proclaim our attachment to the European peace project as well as to a society that lives in freedom and democracy,” according to the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Olaf Scholz.
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IN A MEXICO GANGRENED BY VIOLENCE CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM BECOME THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY HANDS DOWN | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Claudia Sheinbaum President of Mexico.jpg) At the end of the largest electoral process in the history of Mexico — where more than 20,000 elected positions were at stake — Claudia Sheinbaum, candidate for the Morena party (left), became the country's first president. The term "tsunami" was used by all the Mexican press this Monday, June 3, to describe this overwhelming victory of the National Regeneration Movement, a political party founded only ten years ago by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, nicknamed "AMLO", and that of Claudia Sheinbaum, who will succeed him in October after being elected on Sunday with 59.3% of the votes. The new electoral map of the country indeed shows a virtual hegemony of the left.
A quasi hegemony of the left
For the presidency, Claudia Sheinbaum won in thirty-one of the country's thirty-two states, with the exception of the small state of Aguascalientes, where her right-wing opponent, Xochitl Galvez, narrowly won. The new president obtained the best score for the executive since 1988.
In Congress, the victory is just as historic, offering Claudia Sheinbaum great room for maneuver. According to provisional results, the alliance between Morena, the Labor Party (PT, social democrat) and the ecologists (PVEM) should obtain a two-thirds majority in the Chamber of Deputies, with between 345 and 380 seats, or nearly 50 more elected officials than in the last elections of 2018. In the Senate, Morena and his allies could also obtain a qualified majority, with 76 to 88 elected senators.
The left seems able to have a qualified majority, because Morena has already been able to convince opposition senators to join their camp in the past. This means that the checks and balances are very weakened and that the executive will be able to pass all constitutional reforms without having to negotiate with the opposition.
In February, President "AMLO" presented to Congress a package of twenty constitutional reforms covering numerous areas. Some are ecological and economic, such as the ban on hydraulic fracturing for the extraction of energy resources, the ban on transgenic corn, or even the recovery of 18,000 kilometers of railways granted to the private sector over the last twenty years. five years.
Another set of reforms aims to ensure an increase in the minimum wage above inflation and to make permanent the social assistance created by his government, such as the minimum pension or agricultural aid programs.
A policy that Claudia Sheinbaum will be able to pursue
A former IPCC scientist and climate expert, she could become the incarnation of a new Mexican left, concerned with social and environmental issues.
Former mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum focused her program on the fight against poverty, social and educational policies, ecology, gender, sexual diversity and respect for human rights, thus representing a new left in a country still facing to social and environmental problems.
As Mexico's head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum should continue to promote these policies. In particular, she proposes increasing the minimum wage, with increases of up to 11% per year in the coming years, while nearly 36% of the Mexican population still lives below the poverty line. It will also have to maintain the direct aid from which 25 million Mexicans benefit, despite a difficult budgetary context with a forecast deficit of 5.9% in 2024, the highest in 30 years. Growth is estimated at 2.2% for 2024. Sheinbaum is banking on "nearshoring", which consists of relocating part of the factories located in Asia along the border with the United States. Mexico saw record foreign investment in 2023, reaching $36 billion. To maximize the benefits of nearshoring, the country will need to improve security, infrastructure, as well as water and electricity supplies.
In terms of education, Claudia Sheinbaum wishes to continue to develop access to education by offering scholarships to help the most disadvantaged access schooling and higher education. On issues of gender equality, the new president is committed to strengthening women's safety by increasing budgets dedicated to the fight against femicide and implementing programs to support women.
A committed scientist at the head of Mexico
As a committed scientist, Claudia Sheinbaum served as a member of the IPCC starting in 2007. As Secretary of the Environment at Mexico City City Hall in the early 2000s, under the administration of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and later as mayor of the capital, she implemented an ambitious environmental policy.
Mexico, and particularly its capital, is facing an unprecedented drought and could experience a historic water shortage this summer. In response to this crisis, Claudia Sheinbaum made water management a central issue in her program, proposing a national plan to modernize water management infrastructure and make savings. On the energy front, although her position remains ambiguous despite her expertise in climatology, she announced investments of more than $13 billion in renewable energies, while promising to continue the legacy of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has promoted the development of fossil fuels since 2018.
The major challenge: eradicating violence in the country
However, to carry out all these reforms following his predecessor, the biggest challenge remains the eradication of violence in the country. Indeed, the historic election of Claudia Sheinbaum was marked by acts of violence. No less than 27 candidates in the local elections, which were held at the same time as the legislative and presidential elections on Sunday, were assassinated. A new municipal candidate was also killed Sunday evening after the closing of the polls, shot dead in his home shortly before midnight. Yonis Baños, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI, right) for mayor of Santo Domingo Armenta, was a victim of this electoral violence. Claudia Sheinbaum, 61, will have to fight the violence which has left some 450,000 dead and 100,000 missing since former President Felipe Calderon launched the army against the cartels in 2006.
Violence became exponential from December 2006, when former President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) took office, who launched an offensive against the cartels with the participation of the military. Since then, Mexico has recorded some 450,000 homicides and 100,000 disappearances.
The former mayor of Mexico City wants to transpose to the country level the method which allowed him to reduce crime in the capital between 2018 and 2023, according to official figures: tackling the causes of violence (exclusion of young people , recruited by the cartels), “consolidation of the National Guard”, intelligence and investigations, “coordination” between “the different powers and levels of government” and “zero impunity”.
“We will lead Mexico on the path of peace and security,” declared the president-elect, who also promised to fight against violence against women in a country which has an average of ten femicides per day, after the UN.
“The abominable rise in organized crime and thriving cartels is the most overwhelming problem Sheinbaum faces,” says Michael Shifter, an expert at the Diálogo Interamericano analysis center.
“If she fails to halt the dramatic deterioration of the security situation in Mexico, it will be increasingly difficult to implement her social and economic policy agenda,” he adds.
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FEEDBACK ON THE LAUNCH OF THE MS-27 CARGO | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Russian Lauch May 2024.gif) The Russian Progress MS-27 cargo ship, carrying essential supplies for the International Space Station (ISS), was launched on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from the legendary Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
This event, which is part of a long tradition of resupply missions, once again demonstrates the robustness and reliability of Russian space programs. The careful preparation, launch precision and flawless execution of space travel are the result of decades of experience and technical mastery.
Launch from Baikonur
Launch site number 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome was the scene of this launch. At 12:42 p.m. Moscow time, the Soyuz-2.1a rocket, carrying the Progress MS-27 cargo ship, was launched into space. The Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in the vast steppes of Kazakhstan, is an emblematic site in space history. From the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, in 1957, to modern missions to the ISS, Baikonur remains a pillar of space exploration.
The Soyuz-2.1a Rocket
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket is a modernized version of the Soyuz launcher, known for its reliability and efficiency. With a height of 46.3 meters and a diameter of 2.95 meters, the Soyuz-2.1a can carry up to 7,800 kg of payload into low Earth orbit. This three-stage launcher uses kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuels for its first and second stages, while the third stage, called Blok I, uses a similar mixture to provide orbital insertion of the cargo craft.
Theft and Separation
Once launched, the rocket followed a precise upward trajectory. Every step of the flight, from engine ignition to jettison of spent stages, was executed with meticulous precision. Separation of the third stage took place without problems, allowing the Progress MS-27 spacecraft to deploy into orbit. The antennas and solar panels deployed correctly, providing the power and communications needed for the remainder of the journey.
The Progress MS-27 Cargo Ship
The Progress MS-27 ship is an upgraded version of the Progress series of ships, designed specifically for resupply missions to the ISS. With a total mass of 7,300 kg, the Progress MS-27 is capable of carrying various types of cargo, including fuel, water, provisions and scientific equipment.
Resupply for the ISS
On June 1, 2024, at 2:47 p.m. Moscow time, the Progress MS-27 spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS. The vessel delivered a total of 2,504 kg of cargo. This cargo included 1,290 kg of devices and equipment for the station's systems, packaging for scientific experiments, clothing, food, as well as medical and sanitary products for the crew. In addition to these items, 754 kg of fuel were provided to resupply the station, as well as 420 kg of potable water and 40 kg of nitrogen.
The Importance of Supplies
Supply deliveries like this are vital to maintaining operations aboard the ISS. The equipment and devices delivered make it possible to maintain and improve the station's vital systems. Food and medical supplies are crucial to the well-being of astronauts and cosmonauts, while scientific supplies are essential for the continuation of the many ongoing experiments. The delivered fuel is used to adjust the station's orbit and for debris avoidance maneuvers, ensuring the safety of the station and its crew.
Crew Members
On board the ISS, an international team of seven astronauts and cosmonauts was ready to receive supplies. Among them are Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolay Chub and Aleksandr Grebionkin, as well as NASA astronauts Matthew Dominic, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Tracy Dyson. Each of these members plays a crucial role in the daily operations and scientific research carried out aboard the station.
Historical and Technical Context
This was the eighth Russian space launch of the year 2024 and the fourth from Baikonur. This flight was also the 68th for the Soyuz-2.1a launcher and the 180th for a Progress family ship in history, including 91 missions to the ISS. These figures illustrate the frequency and reliability of Russian resupply missions, which are key elements of international space logistics.
Russian Space Mechanics
Russian space mechanics are renowned for their reliability and efficiency. Repeated successful launches and dockings without incident reinforce this reputation. The Soyuz-2.1a, in particular, is a launcher whose design dates back several decades but which has evolved over time thanks to continuous technological improvements. This reliability is a source of inspiration and comparison for other space agencies and private companies such as Ariane Espace and Boeing.
The launch of the Progress MS-27 is a perfect example of the synergy between experience, innovation and technology in the Russian space domain. Each resupply mission is a demonstration of the ability of Russian engineers and scientists to sustain complex space operations and contribute significantly to humanity's exploration and use of space. With missions like these, international collaboration in space continues to flourish, ensuring that the ISS remains a premier research laboratory and a base for future deep space exploration.
The Russian Progress MS-27 cargo ship, carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS), was launched Thursday, May 30, 2024 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz-2.1a rocket, carrying the Progress MS-27 cargo spacecraft, was launched on Thursday at 12:42 p.m. (Moscow time) from launch site number 31 at the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The Progress MS-27's launch into a given orbit, its separation from the rocket's third stage, and the deployment of the ship's antennas and solar panels proceeded as usual, and smoothly as usual.
The cargo ship will dock with the ISS on June 1 at 2:47 p.m. Moscow time.
The Progress MS-27 delivered 2,504 kg of cargo to the ISS, including 1,290 kg of devices and equipment for the station's systems, packaging for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and sanitary products for the crew, 754 kg of fuel for supplying the station, 420 kg of drinking water and 40 kg of nitrogen.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolay Chub and Aleksandr Grebionkin, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominic, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Tracy Dyson are currently on board the ISS.
This is the 8th Russian space launch in 2024 and the fourth from Baikonur. This flight was the 68th for the Soyuz-2.1a launcher and the 180th for the Progress family spacecraft in history (91st to the ISS).
One thing is certain, Russian space mechanics are well established, efficient, reliable, which should give food for thought to others (Nasa, Ariane Espace, Boeing, etc.). |
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LIAR POKER OR TOWARDS AN AGREEMENT
BETWEEN HAMAS AND ISRAEL ? | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Biden Plan for Peace Israel.jpg) Joe Biden announced Friday that Israel had offered a new truce agreement to the Palestinian Islamist movement.
This agreement provides in particular for a withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza for six weeks as well as the release of the hostages.
A ceasefire agreement in three phases
This roadmap, unveiled on May 31, 2024 by the American president, aims to achieve, in stages and under conditions, a permanent ceasefire almost eight months after the start. of the war, triggered on October 7 by a bloody attack by Hamas against Israel.
“It is time for this war to end,” declared Joe Biden from the White House, calling on Hamas to accept the Israeli plan, transmitted through Qatar.
“We cannot let this opportunity pass,” he added. The first phase, according to Joe Biden, would be a ceasefire accompanied by a withdrawal of Israeli troops from “inhabited areas of Gaza” for a period of six weeks.
The end of the fighting would also be accompanied by the release of certain Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7 in Israel, notably women and the sick, as well as the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. In the second phase, the American president spoke of the "permanent" cessation of hostilities and the release of all hostages. The third and final phase would concern the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
“Hamas views positively what was included today in US President Joe Biden's speech regarding a permanent ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, reconstruction and the exchange of prisoners,” Hamas said. declared the movement.
Reaction from Israel
Netanyahu recalls that an agreement on a “permanent ceasefire” includes the “destruction” of Hamas.
“Israel's conditions for stopping the war have not changed,” Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Saturday.
The Prime Minister's Office reaffirms that the Israeli plan includes the "release of all hostages" held, as well as the "destruction" of the Palestinian Islamist movement, and assurances that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.
Hamas position
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh reiterated Friday that the movement's "demands", starting with a permanent ceasefire and a total withdrawal of Israel from the Gaza Strip, were "non-negotiable." .
Situation on the ground
Joe Biden's announcement came at a time when Israeli forces advanced to the center of Rafah, a town in the south of the Gaza Strip that has become the epicenter of the conflict, and took control of the "Corridor of Philadelphia", a strategic buffer zone on the border between this Palestinian territory and Egypt.
The withdrawal of Israeli troops would also allow the reopening of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, closed since May 7, greatly facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid. Egypt will host a meeting on Sunday with Israel and the United States on "the reopening of the border crossing" to Gaza, according to the Al-Qahera News media, close to Egyptian intelligence.
Israel's military movements have been increasingly contested by the international community in recent weeks, particularly due to bombings and ground operations carried out on the city of Rafah. The situation remains very complex around Gaza. |
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA
MORE THAN 2000 PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE
IN A LANDSLIDE | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Papoazie 2024.gif) Unprecedented tragedy in Papua New Guinea: a landslide caused the certain death of more than 2,000 people.
Authorities in Papua New Guinea have begun evacuating around 7,900 people threatened by a possible new landslide in the country's central highlands.
A collapse of a section of mountain could have buried alive more than 2,000 people last Friday.
According to Niels Kraaier, Unicef representative in Papua New Guinea, it is "very unlikely" that rescuers will find survivors, given the severity of the landslide and the time that has passed since the event.
According to him, “it is not a rescue mission, but a recovery mission” of the bodies.
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WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE RIOTS
IN NEW CALEDONIA ? | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Nouvlle Caledonie 2024.gif) The events that have shaken Nouméa since May 13 and the convergence, towards the capital of the territory, of 10,000 activists or young delinquents, for days and nights of pillaging, have already left at least six families in mourning. Four people, including a gendarme, died during “very serious clashes”. A second agent was killed in an accidental shooting on Thursday, May 16. Militias, sometimes armed, patrol certain neighborhoods to monitor homes and businesses. The government announced the deployment of soldiers in order to “secure” the ports and airport of the overseas archipelago. A state of emergency has been declared since Wednesday evening and the use of the social network TikTok is restricted. A tumult which traumatizes the inhabitants of this confetti of France, 23 hours by plane and 17,500 km from the metropolis.
Peaceful demonstrations had taken place across the country in recent weeks, as the National Assembly's vote on the constitutional reform project which provides for the expansion of the electoral body specific to the provincial vote approached. On Monday evening, the crisis quickly intensified, taking local authorities by surprise.
To understand how this situation could degenerate so quickly, it is important to expose the complex political and socio-economic issues that are current in this region.
The political crisis
The political crisis first finds its source in a government bill providing for a constitutional amendment which extends the right to vote to French people who have lived on the island for ten years.
Since the Nouméa Agreement of May 5, 1998, only people holding New Caledonian citizenship according to specific criteria can participate in provincial elections and referendums. For example, it is necessary to have lived in New Caledonia between 1988 and 1998 or to be the child of a parent meeting this condition to enter the electorate.
This agreement aimed to “rebalance” political inequalities so that the interests of the indigenous Kanaks and the descendants of French settlers were equally recognized. It helped consolidate peace between these groups after a long period of conflict in the 1980s, known locally as "the events". At the turn of the 1980s, the idea of building a history together, a “community of destiny” and “a Kanak awakening” was discussed, as David Chappell writes.
The constitutional reform voted by the National Assembly on May 15 plans to lift this restriction by opening the right to vote to residents present in the archipelago for at least ten years. According to a Senate report, this revision would increase the composition of the electoral body by 14.5%, by adding 12,441 natives of New Caledonia and 13,400 French citizens.
The changes announced by Paris have therefore sown discord because they cancel provisions of the 1998 Nouméa Accord, in particular the restriction of voting rights.
These rules guarantee adequate representation of the Kanaks, the indigenous people, who represent 41% of the New Caledonian population, according to the Institute of Statistics of New Caledonia. As a result, approximately one in five citizens is now excluded from the electoral process. A share increased from 7.46% of the population in 1999 to 19.28% in 2023, underlines the Senate.
The separatists, however, fear that this revision will weaken the Kanak people. “No people want to be a minority in their country,” warns Rosine Streeter, herself a Kanak and creator of the Libre Unité Action union. “If the electorate is expanded, the separatists will lose control of the provinces [which they lead in the North and in the islands], or no longer be represented in the Southern province,” she fears.
Loyalists and separatists oppose each other
Currently two groups are opposed on this subject: the loyalists and the separatists A loyalist group (the term is used to designate the New Caledonian anti-independenceists, the “loyalists to French republican institutions”) of elected representatives in the Parliament of New Caledonian Caledonia rejects the contemporary meaning of “rebalancing” with regard to the electoral status of the Kanaks. According to them, after three referendums on the question of the independence of New Caledonia, organized between 2018 and 2021, which all resulted in a majority negative vote, the time for electoral reform is well past.
This position is clearly expressed by MP Nicolas Metzdorf. A leading loyalist, he defined the constitutional revision adopted by the National Assembly as “a vote for democracy and universalism”.
This point of view is rejected by Kanak independence leaders, who believe that these amendments undermine the political status of indigenous Kanaks, who constitute a minority of the voting population. These leaders also refuse to admit that the decolonization program has been completed, as the loyalists claim.
On the contrary, they contest the result of the final 2021 referendum which, according to them, was imposed on the territory by the French authorities too soon after the Covid pandemic. According to them, the organization of this vote did not take into account the fact that Kanak communities were very hard hit by the pandemic and were not able to fully mobilize before the vote. Requests to postpone the referendum were rejected and many Kanaks abstained as a result.
In this context, the electoral reforms decided in Paris this week are considered by the independence camps as a new political prescription imposed on the Kanak people.
Social and economic inequalities
But this violence is not just an echo of past political grievances. Deep social and economic inequalities make the situation explosive, particularly among a large part of young people. According to the Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies of New Caledonia, in 2020, one in five New Caledonians is in a situation of monetary poverty. The local populations, Kanak but also Wallisians and Futunians, are faced with profound disparities. Dropping out of school is edifying, as are difficulties in accessing employment or resources. In companies, the share of Kanaks among executives was only 11.6% in 2019, cites La 1ère.
How to get out of the crisis ?
At the end of his whirlwind trip to New Caledonia and a long day of discussions with the political and economic actors of Caillou, Emmanuel Macron could only face the obvious: the Congress with a view to validation of the constitutional reform providing for the reform of the electoral body cannot be convened by the end of June. Despite a timid return to calm on the security level, political tensions are too high.
“The gunshot to the temple as a pressure shot does not work with Oceanian culture,” warned Jean-Jacques Urvoas, former Minister of Justice and rapporteur in 2015 for the permanent information mission. on the institutional future of New Caledonia.
Mr. Macron said he had “made a commitment” that the reform of the electoral body “would not pass in force” and that “we were giving ourselves a few weeks (…), in order to allow appeasement, the resumption of dialogue with a view to a global agreement. Emmanuel Macron promises this Thursday, May 28, 2024 not to “forcibly push through” electoral reform. “I am committed to ensuring that this reform will not be implemented in force today in the current context and that we will give ourselves a few weeks to allow for appeasement, the resumption of dialogue with a view to a global agreement,” he said. he declared during a press statement in New Caledonia. But the reform of the electoral thaw “has democratic legitimacy”, he affirmed.
In the event of a global political agreement, the Head of State wants it to be submitted to the vote of New Caledonians. “My desire is that this global agreement is the one which integrates our Constitution (…) This agreement must obviously be negotiated by the legitimate political forces to do so, but must also involve the mayors, the active forces, in particular economic, of the New -Caledonia. My hope is also that this agreement can be submitted to the vote of [New] Caledonians,” he declared.
A way out of the crisis could involve what has been lacking in recent years: a dialogue between the executive and the local level.
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DONALD TRUMP / STORMY DANIELS CASE
"MOTHER THERESA COULD NOT RESIST
TO THESE ACCUSATIONS" | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/The Case Trump Stormy.gif) A former American president faces prison. Donald Trump is the first former American head of state to be tried criminally. After six weeks of trial, the pleadings of the defense and the prosecution ended Tuesday May 28, 2024 at the Manhattan court (New York).
“This whole thing is fake!” ".
The Republican candidate continues to present himself as the victim of a “witch hunt” orchestrated according to him by justice under the orders of the Democrats. Even the Catholic saint “Mother Teresa could not resist these accusations”, he stormed on Wednesday May 29, leaving the courtroom.
The verdict is awaited
Since Wednesday, the 12 members of the jury, five women and seven men citizens of New York, began deliberating behind closed doors on Wednesday. The twelve jurors in charge of the Stormy Daniels case concluded their first day of deliberations, Wednesday, May 29, without finding a verdict. They have in their hands the legal fate of the ex-president, who aspires to return to the White House during the November presidential election.
After debates during which it was often a question of sex, money and the conquest of power, the latter have not yet answered "the" question: was Donald Trump guilty of 34 falsifications of documents accountants, intended to hide a payment of $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels to avoid a sex scandal at the very end of her 2016 presidential campaign?
The latter claims to have had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump in 2006, when he was already married to Melania Trump, which the accused denies. The payment, made in 2016, would have aimed to prevent the affair from coming to light a few months before the presidential election.
The defense calls for a "not guilty verdict" and demands that it be "done quickly, done well." Donald Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche, believes that in this case, "there was no intent to defraud and no conspiracy to influence" the 2016 American election. He warned the members of the jury against the temptation to transform their verdict into a “referendum” for or against the former American president.
These jurors therefore have work to do, especially since whatever their verdict, they must agree unanimously. Above all, they must judge based on the facts and ignoring their “personal opinions”, according to the judge. of Manhattan Court, Juan Merchan. “You have an obligation to put aside (your) personal opinions, whether favorable or against the accused,” he solemnly warned while reading his instructions to these twelve citizens of New York.
The jurors do not determine the sentence awarded to Donald Trump, they simply decide on the 34 counts. It is the judge who will determine the nature of the sentence. The 12 jurors must decide unanimously.
Everyone must declare that the billionaire is guilty “beyond reasonable doubt” so that he can actually be convicted. The defense therefore only needs to convince one juror of the Republican's innocence to invalidate the decision. The jury could also make a finding of disagreement.
In this case, the trial would be canceled. The prosecution has the option of organizing a new trial or dropping the charges. A new judgment could hardly be held before the presidential election of November 5, 2024.
A positive response would tip the 2024 US presidential campaign into an unknown scenario .
Donald Trump, Republican candidate, could appeal and still run on November 5 against Joe Biden, the 81-year-old outgoing Democratic president.
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UNDERSTANDING HOUTHI ATTACKS
IN THE RED SEA IN THE ISRAEL-GAZA WAR | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Map Houtis 2024.jpg) The maritime implications of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 only became apparent after several weeks of conflict. This war between Hamas and the IDF contributed to the extension of the conflict in the Red Sea.
Indeed, according to their official statements, the Houthis will continue their attacks against ships passing through the area as long as Israeli operations continue in Gaza. Although the objective is to harm Israeli interests, Israel and its seafront in the Eastern Mediterranean have been relatively spared from a maritime perspective.
However, with the entry of the Houthis into the war, the conflict took on a new geographic dimension, moving from a regional to a global scale. It now directly threatens ships transiting in the Red Sea, between the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Suez Canal, two strategic passages essential for the free flow of global trade.
Around 30% of the world's container volume (15% of global trade) passes through these routes.
Among the first collateral victims are the Suez Canal, which announced a drop of almost 50% in its revenues and 37% in the number of passages. The majority of shipowners, such as MSC, Maersk and CMA-CGM, prefer to bypass the Red Sea via the Cape of Good Hope, increasing the distance by 6,000 km and freight costs.
The operational and media strain created by the conflict in the Red Sea has diverted attention from the Indian Ocean, where pirates have resumed their activities since the end of November 2023. Civil and military ships deployed in the area face to different threats.
It is crucial to distinguish attacks by the Houthis, a pro-Iranian paramilitary insurgent group with political, strategic and symbolic objectives targeting Israeli interests and its allies, from pirate attacks, which are motivated by financial gain. The Qaedist group Al-Shebbab plays an indirect support role for Somali pirates.
In mid-March 2024, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi rebels, announced his intention to expand his attacks to the Indian Ocean, making these distinctions all the more important.
The Houthis' campaign against maritime trade in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is now entering its sixth month, and the situation remains favorable to the Houthis. Western military pressure has failed to prevent the Houthis from carrying out their strikes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The diplomatic route seems ineffective, even counterproductive.
In November 2023, in response to the Israeli offensive on Gaza, the Houthis declared that ships with a real or perceived affiliation with Israel would potentially be targeted if they passed through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait or the Red Sea.
This resulted in a series of missile and drone strikes against maritime targets, beginning with the spectacular seizure of the Israeli vessel Galaxy Leader off the coast of Yemen in November 2023.
Initially focused on Israeli trade, the Houthi campaign has gradually expanded its targets to include the majority of Western merchant ships, perceived as allies of the Israelis. After five months of campaigning, maritime traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea decreased by 50% compared to the previous year.
In response, two naval coalitions mainly led by the West, notably the United States, were formed. Operation Poseidon Archer (OPA) aims to carry out strikes on Houthi territory, while Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) is responsible for escorting civilian ships through the strait. Added to this is the European operation Aspides, with a similar mandate.
These limited armed operations offer, at the end of May 2024, no prospect of a diplomatic or military resolution. British and American strikes on Yemen have not produced significant effects on the Houthis' strike capabilities.
A “Houthi Yemen”
The Houthis are taking advantage of this complex situation. Originally from northern Yemen, they consider themselves legitimate to rule over “their” Yemen. Nine years after their successful insurgency, the Houthis find themselves in a favorable position.
They dominate northern Yemen and see themselves as victors in a proxy war waged by the West. Their experience of Saudi and Emirati bombings allows them today to reduce the effectiveness of Western strikes.
The failure of military options and the West's refusal to recognize a “Houthi Yemen” allowed the Houthis to take advantage of their adversaries' lack of leverage.
In the context of the post-October 7, 2023 crisis, the Houthis and the Iranians have reached an agreement to launch an anti-Israeli campaign.
This campaign strengthens their alliance with Iran, legitimizes their position and generates significant popular support among the Arab populations. In addition, it weakens Saudi power and strengthens Houthi control over maritime trade around Yemen.
The prospect of peace between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis paradoxically perpetuates hostilities. After eight years of conflict, the two sides signed a ceasefire, but negotiations remain complicated. Saudi Arabia wants comprehensive peace for Yemen, while the Houthis are only negotiating peace between themselves and the Saudis.
The Saudi policy of “stabilization at all costs” of its neighborhood pushes Riyadh to tolerate the excesses of the Houthis. Saudi authorities do not condemn the Houthis when they launch missiles over their territory to strike Israeli targets.
This behavior highlights the political dilemma facing Saudi Arabia, especially when considering the arsenal of anti-missile batteries deployed along its 1,800 km coastline on the Red Sea, intended to counter strikes from the Yemen.
The official Saudi press no longer describes the Houthis as terrorists and no longer reacts with outrage to border skirmishes involving forces allied to the Houthis.
Furthermore, the Americans, keen to preserve their relations with a kingdom that is moving further and further away from the American strategic umbrella, are avoiding putting pressure on the Saudis regarding the situation in Yemen, for fear of accelerating the deterioration of a alliance already less strategic than before.
Black gold and global strategic realignment
The disintegration of historic alliances in the Middle East, against a backdrop of global strategic realignment, has created a security vacuum that the Houthis are exploiting.
The Middle East and the United States are no longer essential to each other. The US shale gas boom, although now in decline, has reduced US economic interest in the Middle Eastern market, while the US "pivot" to Asia and the war in Ukraine have become the new priorities from Washington.
At the same time, the Gulf countries now export more than 70% of their gas and oil production to Asia, in particular to China, which is not involved in the conflicts in the Middle East and which, on the other hand, except Singapore, has no particular sympathy for Israel.
It is therefore understandable that it was China, the main client of Iran and Saudi Arabia, which negotiated a de-escalation agreement between these two regional rivals in March 2023. The Gulf petromonarchies, now dependent on Asia for their income, are therefore more attentive to their interests.
It is in this global context that we must understand the Houthis' announcement stipulating that ships affiliated with Chinese interests would not be targeted.
Russian ships also benefit from the leniency of the Houthis because of Russia's alliance with Iran and China, the largest customer of Russian oil.
Furthermore, the American withdrawal from the region has not been compensated by the emergence of an equivalent security actor, China having neither the means nor the will to assume this role. As for regional powers, they have no credible means to counter the Houthi threat.
The Houthis are exploiting this security breach, knowing that no state actor is ready to engage in a new conflict in the Middle East.
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A PERIOD OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITH THE DEATH OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT E. RAISSI ?
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After the death of President Ebrahim Raïssi and his head of diplomacy, made official on Monday May 20 in a helicopter crash that occurred the day before in the north of the country, Vice-President Mohammad Mokhber was designated as head of the executive. . This is an interim appointment, while new elections are organized, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday. This vote will take place on June 28, state television reported.
National mourning for five days
Ebrahim Raïssi died after meeting his Azeri counterpart, Ilham Aliev, on Sunday morning on the occasion of the inauguration of a dam on the Araxes River, along the border with Azerbaijan. His helicopter crashed in thick fog while en route to the city of Tabriz.
National mourning was declared for five days. The funeral ceremony honoring the Iranian president and those who accompanied him, including influential Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, began Tuesday morning in Tabriz. The bodies will then be transferred to Tehran and the religious city of Qom for a funeral procession. The president's remains will be buried in his hometown, Mashhad, in the east of the country.
This death opens a period of political uncertainty in Iran, at a time when the Middle East is shaken by the war in Gaza and while the succession of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, aged 85, is looming.
Also, then the national mourning for five days begins, several questions arise concerning the future of the country. Raïssi, a religious fundamentalist, was a supporter of excessive repression, of the return in force of the “moral police”, of the accelerated relaunch of the nuclear program.
He is also the man of rapprochement with Russia and China - the internal dictatorship going hand in hand with geopolitical developments and international alliances. The Sino-Russian-Iranian “convergence of struggles”.
Iranians will also remember him as the “judge of the gallows”, who, as a young prosecutor of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s, sent thousands of political prisoners to their deaths. The late president “was a man who had a lot of blood on his hands”, “responsible for atrocious human rights violations” in Iran, commented a White House spokesperson, John Kirby.
After having been the architect of intense repression in recent years, will the ultraconservative Ebrahim Raïssi have a successor in his image? Can his death destabilize the system?
No major shock for the Islamic regime
The structure of power in Iran does not suggest a major political shift in one of the most repressive countries in the world. The President of the Republic is in fact only a Prime Minister, an executive. The real holder of power in Iran is not the President of the Republic, it is the guide of the Revolution. Since 1989, and the death of the first supreme guide, former president Ali Khamenei has held this position.
In the Iranian Parliament, the reformists are largely in the minority, with 20 seats against 227 for the conservatives, out of a total of 290. Neither Ayatollah Khamenei nor the deputies will therefore push for the nomination for a moderate president. “The system will communicate a lot about [the] death [of Ebrahim Raïssi] and will stick to constitutional procedures to show that it works, while looking for a new recruit capable of maintaining conservative unity and loyalty to Khamenei ", explains to the BBC Sanam Vakil, specialist in international relations, in charge of the Middle East and North Africa at the Chatham House think tank.
Who will soon succeed the supreme leader ?
The Islamic Republic is also looking for a “new recruit” to ensure the ideological continuity of the regime. Aged 84, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not only aging, he is also ill. For almost ten years, he has suffered from prostate cancer.
Due to this medical assessment, the name of Ebrahim Raïssi had been circulating for several years as a possible successor to the supreme guide of the revolution.
The death of the president on Sunday therefore revives speculation around this succession, which is already an opaque process. “The game is decided behind the scenes and in particular among the most radical, close to the current guide and the body of the Revolutionary Guards”, this paramilitary organization which has taken over large parts of the Iranian economy, explains for its part Jonathan Piron.
And yet the Iranian regime wants to be reassuring. On Sunday, the supreme leader said on the social network A message published even before the death of Ebrahim Raïssi was officially confirmed, suggesting that the internal political balances should not be upset...
It is true that the role of Ayatollah Raïssi, one of the pillars of the conservative and ultraconservative camps, a major element of the Iranian repressive apparatus since his election in 2021, was more akin to that of “simple executive cog following the instructions from the Supreme Leader » Ali Khamenei.
Status quo for Iranian diplomacy
With the death of President Raïssi and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran suddenly lost two important figures in its diplomacy. Since his election in 2021, Ebrahim Raïssi has tried to take up a particular challenge on the international scene: relaunching the nuclear agreement, in order to convince the United States to lift the embargo which has undermined the Iranian economy since May 2018.
This project should be, at least for the coming weeks, taken up by the new interim Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ali Bagheri, who is none other than the former chief negotiator of the Iranian nuclear issue. In the hours following his appointment on Monday, this seasoned 56-year-old diplomat held a first council with his deputy ministers, while Russia expressed in a press release its desire to “strengthen cooperation” between the two countries.
During a telephone interview the same day, he also called for "global and uninterrupted cooperation" with China, Iran's other strategic partner, according to the official Irna agency.
A silent revolt in society constantly repressed in blood
Despite the apparent unity of a regime which has today purged all its liberal elements, despite the fact that the president has become a simple executioner of the Supreme Guide... there are still clans vying for power. Between religious fundamentalists and the Revolutionary Guards, more interested in economic predation than dogma. Between supporters of excessive repression, and those who advocate a more measured approach.
More important than the identity of Raisi's successor, the succession of the Supreme Guide is another potential subject of discord, in a country in deep economic crisis, where a significant fraction of the population is hostile to the regime.
Alongside the economy, there is also religion, increasingly rejected, particularly by women who can no longer take it. After the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the “morality police”, arrested in September 2022 for incorrectly wearing the Islamic veil, followed months of demonstrations by men and women, and something like 500 deaths in the repressions.. "In Iran, anti-regime uprisings come in waves: 2009, 2015, 2019, 2022."....
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JUMP INTO THE WATER WITH YOUR FACE ON
MAKEUP FOR AN AQUATIC SELFIE | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Makeup Waterproof.jpg)
I wanted to share with you a little discovery that changed my beauty routine and allowed me to feel beautiful and sexy in all circumstances: waterproof makeup.
Seriously, it's a revelation !
You know how frustrating it can be to spend time doing your makeup in the morning, only to have all that work ruined by rain, sweat, or even a small emotional tear. With waterproof makeup, this problem is a thing of the past. Whether it's a bold eyeliner, a mascara that gives dreamy lashes, or a lipstick that stays flawless even after a meal, these products are precious allies.
Imagine yourself swimming at the pool or dancing the night away without fear of touch-ups. Waterproof makeup ensures your look stays intact, no matter the conditions. It's a real confidence boost, especially during special occasions like weddings or summer evenings where you want to stay fresh and radiant from start to finish.
In addition, today there are a multitude of products that combine fit and comfort. Formulas are often enriched with nourishing ingredients, so no need to sacrifice the health of our skin or eyelashes for good looks.
I especially loved trying waterproof eyeshadows that don't crease and waterproof foundations that provide flawless coverage all day long.
For an even sexier effect, don't hesitate to add a touch of waterproof highlighter for an irresistible glow.
And of course, don't forget makeup removal! Choose a good makeup remover specific to waterproof products in order to take care of your skin and clean well without excessive rubbing.
The anti-slip
How does a formula resist water ?
It resists water thanks to its pigments which are coated in a fatty substance.
Hence the need to use gloss and powders with a creamy finish.
But ban all silicone bases, this molecule causes anything to slide on it.
Waterproofing
You know that underwater 60% of UVB and 80% of UVA are present.
So you need protection with an SPF in the form of an oil to strengthen the hold of your makeup.
The oily texture pencil
Everything must be worked with pencil with its super tenacious oily texture.
Come on, let's carefully line our lips then apply the gloss.
Then flat areas on the eyelids.
And why not make little stars around the eyes to highlight the complexion.
Of course those in a hurry can use waterproof directly !
But only on ultra dry skin. The manicure
Beautiful from head to toe !
We anoint our lacquered nails with nourishing oil and say goodbye to small cracks !
So girls, if you haven't tried waterproof makeup yet, I strongly encourage you to do so.
You'll love that feeling of freedom and confidence knowing your makeup stays flawless, no matter what. Give it a try and share your thoughts with me, I can't wait to hear what you think!
So ready !
Yes !
Ready to jump into the water and come out like a goddess that all men fall for ! |
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NETHERLANDS NEW CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT UNVEILED
A STRICT ANTI-IMMIGRATION PROGRAM | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Geert Wilders no Imigration.jpg) The Netherlands has the most right-wing government in its history. Almost six months after the surprise victory of the far-right PVV party in the legislative elections, its leader Geert Wilders announced that a government agreement had been reached on Wednesday evening and finalized on Thursday May 16, 2024.
Negotiations were long and difficult between the four Dutch right-wing parties forming the new coalition: the PVV (far right) of Wilders, the VVD (center right) of outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who left politics to run for office. the post of Secretary General of NATO, the NSC (centrist) and the pro-farmer party BBB.
This political alignment, according to the parties themselves, should bring to the Netherlands, reflecting a clearly conservative orientation and focused on restricting immigration, tax reform and adjusting social policies.
On the menu therefore: “purchasing power”, “security of existence”, “the abandonment of unpopular environmental measures”, and above all “the control of asylum and migration
Restrict immigration
If the name of the future Prime Minister is still not known, the first principle by which the PVV intends to make its mark is to restrict immigration. “Concrete steps will be taken to move towards the strictest rules ever adopted on asylum, and the broadest package of measures ever taken to control migration,” states the agreement.
“We will try to obtain what is called an opt-out [derogation from European rules, editor's note] for asylum, as the Danes did,” clarified Geert Wilders, while recognizing that “this could take years.”
Drastic anti-immigration measures
On the immigration front, drastic measures to reduce the number of migrants entering the country are proposed:
- a temporary law on the asylum crisis which will last a maximum of two years. During this period, the processing of asylum applications will be suspended and the reception of asylum seekers will be “significantly reduced”;
- the indefinite asylum permit will be abolished; - the Netherlands will ask Brussels for a sort of option to withdraw from the existing rules, to define their own asylum policy;
- Ukrainian refugees will have to pay a higher personal contribution;
- employers who hire foreign staff will be responsible for nuisances and costs, for example accommodation, when this staff does not have accommodation;
- there will be a cap on the number of foreign students allowed to come and study in the Netherlands.
Backtracking on Nitrogen
On the economic front, the coalition agreed on the cancellation of a 15% tax on share buybacks which should have come into force next year. The new government also plans to build not two, but four additional nuclear power plants.
On the sensitive subject of nitrogen emissions, which had provoked a revolt among farmers, the rural party BBB obtained a rollback on the measures taken by the previous government. These were to reduce nitrogen pollution, in particular through a drastic reduction in the number of farms.
The new Dutch government is embarking on a period of profound transformation, with policies heralding tough discussions with the European Union, particularly on immigration and the environment.
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CHOOSE FRANCE MIRACLE OR MIRAGE?
A REINDUSTRIALIZATION AT HALF | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Macron Choose France.jpg) The seventh edition of the Choose France summit opened Monday May 13, 2024, in Versailles. On this occasion, Emmanuel Macron received 180 French and foreign bosses in the prestigious grounds of the Palace of Versailles.
The Presidency of the Republic announced 56 new investment projects for a total amount of 15 billion euros - compared to 13 billion in 2023. This is a "record", trumpeted the Elysée during a meeting with journalists. These announcements could create 10,000 jobs, according to the Elysée.
A harvest of investments... 15 billion euros
This is one of the flagship events of the Élysée strategy to attract foreign investment in order to “support growth, innovation and employment”. The fruit of a tax and energy policy, in particular.
As the European elections approach, the government is seeking to take advantage of this period to regain ground in the polls against the National Rally (RN). With GDP growth in the first quarter exceeding expectations (+0.2%), Emmanuel Macron aims to improve his image after the turbulence linked to public deficits in the spring.
However, despite this wave of investments, industrial production in volume remains 5% lower than its level before the health crisis, and productivity is still stagnating. The question therefore arises: is the reindustrialization advocated by the government really underway?
Among the 56 announcements made, 7 projects relate to the field of quantum and artificial intelligence, 11 to decarbonization, 10 to the transport sector, 9 to health and 10 to the financial sector. Nine of these projects concern regular investments by companies already present in France. Companies such as Microsoft, McCain, Amazon, FertigHy, Skeleton (an Estonian battery factory) and others are planning to test their luck on French soil.
44% of this total was committed by American companies (including Microsoft, Amazon and Pfizer), 36% by European companies, compared to only 3.9% for China - including the New Silk Roads sovereign fund. A reversal of dynamics compared to 2023 when American investments represented only 3.93% of the total announced, compared to 52.6% for Asian companies. Geopolitics was also involved...
...for a trompe l'oeil attractiveness
A very low number of jobs per billion
A Business France study dating from 2022 showed that only 3% of foreign investment projects exceeded 250 employees in France. And two-thirds of projects had 20 or fewer.
However, despite the title of European champion in terms of foreign investment attractiveness attributed to France by the latest EY barometer published at the beginning of May, there is a decline in terms of job creation:
on average, only 35 jobs are generated per investment project in France, compared to 49 in Germany, 61 in the United Kingdom and even 299 in Spain.
This trend is partly explained by the high cost of labor in France and the shortage of qualified labor, particularly in the field of industrial projects, as Sylvain Bersinger, economist at Asteres, points out.
Due to these cost and labor challenges, France is attracting more investors for projects focused on cutting-edge technology, while industrial projects lead to a significant drop in job creation.
Is France really attractive for employment? When analyzing the number of jobs created in relation to the total population, France ranks only eighth in Europe, behind countries such as Portugal, Serbia, Ireland, Hungary, Spain, the United Kingdom and Greece.
How to explain it? In addition to our legendary labor costs, “France is a country of service professions and suffers from a lack of qualified labor for industrial projects,” points out Sylvain Bersinger, economist at the Asteres firm. France itself moreover invests more abroad (45 billion) than the reverse (34 billion).
As a result of all these factors, foreign investments account for only 0.13% of employment in France, says EY. A drop in the ocean, Choose France does not solve the problem of unemployment. By building cutting-edge products at home, we may gain geopolitical independence, particularly from countries like China...and at the margins.
“Failing to sell enough, France sells itself to others”
The economist Jean-Marc Daniel interviewed by L'Express is also worried.
“What France suffers from is not too low an attractiveness, pointed out the president of the Society of Political Economy. It suffers from an excessive demand which, not finding a sufficient national supply in comparison, is concerns imports. As a result, France accumulates external deficits, the consequence of which is a transfer of financial resources to its suppliers, and more generally to the rest of the world.
As it cannot sell enough to cover the cost of its imports, it sells itself, its commercial partners using the proceeds of their sales made on its territory to buy its heritage." "Failing to sell enough, France sells itself to others", he was already worried after the announcement of colossal investments by Qatar in the French economy – 10 billion euros by 2030.
The spectacular increase in an indicator, net foreign assets, in other words the difference between the value of what the French hold abroad and that of what foreigners hold in France, corroborates this analysis. From -40 billion euros in 2001, this figure plummeted to -630 billion in 2022.
Our leaders “must focus their policy not on the appeal to foreign capital but on more rigor in the management of public finances, the deficit of which artificially maintains demand and absorbs savings which are lacking in productive investment”.
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ANDREI BELOOUSSOV NEW MINISTER
OF RUSSIAN DEFENSE
FOR A MORE EFFICIENT ARMS INDUSTRY | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Anderi Belooussow Russian Minister of War.jpg) Sunday May 12, 2024 Vladimir Putin thanked Sergei Shoigu, 68 years old, loyal among the president's loyalists and in command of the army for twelve years. He will now occupy another, equally key function as secretary of the Security Council. He will also serve as Vladimir Putin's deputy on the commission responsible for the military-industrial complex. This comes as the Ministry of Defense is still in shock from the recent arrest (April 23) of Timur Ivanov, Russian Deputy Minister of Defense and therefore deputy to Sergei Shoigu, in charge of military construction projects. For corruption...With this reshuffle. Sergei Shoigu is de facto protected from future investigations and legal proceedings.
Instead of choosing a soldier to head the Ministry of Defense and replace his friend Sergei Shoigu, Vladimir Putin opted for an economist renowned not only for his seriousness and integrity but also for his desire to nationalize the economy: Andreï Belooussov .
At 65 years old, this trained economist certainly has no military background but "on the battlefield today, the winner is the one who is the most open to innovation (...) This is why, at this stage, the president took the decision to entrust the Ministry of Defense to a civilian,” justified Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the Tass agency. According to the latter, the Ministry of Defense must be “totally open” to innovation, “to the introduction of advanced ideas and to the creation of conditions conducive to economic competitiveness”.
A “technocrat” to reform the arms industry
The president thus promoted a man who reinforces the militarization of the economy. The government reshuffle in Moscow has just confirmed the rise of the military-industrial complex. For more than a year, it has been the engine of Russia's growth, the main driver behind the 3.6% increase in GDP last year. Additionally, nearly a third of Russia's federal budget has been allocated to national defense this year, as Russia has massively increased its industrial military production over the past two years, with total defense spending estimated to reach , 7.5% of its GDP.
Known for defending greater government involvement in the economy, according to the American analysis center Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Andreï Belousov has participated in recent years in various innovation and development projects within the Russian defense industry. He organized an order for drones worth 4.4 billion rubles (around 49 million euros), as well as plans to financially support drone producers. In January 2023, he announced that Russia had finalized the "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" project, which provides 696 billion rubles (about 7 billion euros) for the production of 32,000 drones per year until 2030 .
Sacrosanct stability
This former Minister of Economic Development, then advisor to the Kremlin, has, over the years, acquired a special place in the president's inner circle. Until then, he was first deputy prime minister. A position now occupied by Denis Mantourov, the former Minister of Industry and Trade who, in the face of Western sanctions, orchestrated the revival of national industry to replace imports. Above all, he is one of the protégés of Sergei Tchemezov, head of the defense industry conglomerate Rostec. This former KGB officer is a loyal friend of Vladimir Putin.
This slight reshuffle comes at a time when the Russian army is advancing in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv, a few days after launching a ground assault there, and is increasing its pressure in the Donbass, around Chassiv Iar. Which implies that the other pillars of the “special military operation” are maintained: Valéri Guerassimov, chief of staff; Sergei Naryshkin, head of foreign intelligence; Alexander Bortnikov, head of security services.
Vladimir Putin therefore hopes that Andrei Belousov, renowned for being an "effective technocrat", will resolve the problems of corruption and embezzlement within the army. The Kremlin also aims to rationalize the Russian defense apparatus in view of a protracted war in Ukraine. Decisions on the battlefield will, however, be left to the military.
“It is clear that no one expects direct leadership of the troops from the new minister,” said a columnist for Moskovsky Komsomolets, a Russian tabloid daily. "In Russian politics and power vertical, there is only one truly irreplaceable person. That man is Vladimir Putin himself."
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WESTERN SOLDIERS IN UKRAINE !
SALVINI TELLS MACRON TO "GET HEALED" | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Matteo Salvini Declare.jpg) Emmanuel Macron had reiterated the possibility of sending ground troops in the event of a Russian breakthrough.
Matteo Salvini, deputy head of the Italian government, sharply criticized French President Emmanuel Macron, suggesting he should "get treatment" after he again raised the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine to confront Russia .
Customary of statements going against the grain of the pro-kyiv policy of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the leader of The League was reacting to recent statements by Macron and the former President of the Italian Council Mario Monti, who raised the possibility of send soldiers to Ukraine.
“They need to get treatment,” said Matteo Salvini. “Those who hold this opinion and say it as if it were something normal, and this goes for Macron as well as for Monti, they are dangerous.”
“If they want to fight so much, then let them go to Ukraine, tomorrow, they are waiting for them,” he added.
Already in March, he had accused Emmanuel Macron of “representing a danger for our country and our continent”.
On the other hand, he welcomed the speech of Russian President Vladimir Putin during his inauguration Tuesday in the Kremlin:
“Yesterday, Putin, among other things, invited dialogue and I hope that 2024 will be the year of peace, not soldiers who left to die in Ukraine.”
Matteo Salvini overcame at the beginning of April a motion of no confidence tabled in parliament by the opposition accusing The League of not having cut ties with Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party after the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
A long-time admirer of Vladimir Putin, he signed a five-year agreement with United Russia on March 6, 2017, which was automatically renewed in 2022.
If he condemned the Russian invasion of his neighbor, he also made controversial remarks on the re-election of Vladimir Putin (“When a people votes, they are always right”) or the death in prison of Alexeï Navalny, principal opposing the Russian president, believing that it was up to Russian “doctors and judges” to shed light on the circumstances of his death.
Asked to react to Matteo Salvini's comments, the head of diplomacy Antonio Tajani, also vice-president of the council, simply recalled that Rome had no intention of sending soldiers to Ukraine!
For La République en Marche MEP Sandro Gozi, “Salvini is very worried about his future in government, to the point of seizing every opportunity to become the spokesperson for the Kremlin.”
The dispute between Macron and Salvini illustrates growing tensions within the European Union over how to manage the crisis in Ukraine and deal with Russia.
While Macron is seriously considering sending troops to Ukraine if necessary, Salvini, close to Vladimir Putin, is categorically opposed to it. These divergences reveal the challenges facing the European Union in maintaining a united and coherent position in the context of an international crisis.
Salvini's reaction, calling Macron "dangerous" and suggesting he "seek treatment", raises questions about the very nature of political debate in Europe.
This highlights personal tensions between European leaders and obstacles to cooperation and coordination within the EU.
In conclusion, Emmanuel Macron's controversial statements regarding possible military intervention in Ukraine triggered a strong reaction from Matteo Salvini, highlighting the growing divisions and tensions within the European Union. This verbal escalation highlights the challenges facing the EU in maintaining unity and cohesion in the context of an international crisis. |
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STATE VISIT OF THE CHINESE PRESIDENT TO FRANCE
XI INFLEXIBLE JINPING | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Xinping in France May 2024.jpg) It was the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic that the strong man of Beijing returned to the Old Continent.
This meeting marked sixty years of diplomatic relations between Paris and Beijing, initiated in 1964 with the recognition of the People's Republic of China by General de Gaulle. However, this visit was nothing like a honeymoon.
Rarely has the contemporary world experienced such a geopolitical whirlwind. On one side, the West, with the United States at the head of the bridge, whose domination is called into question. On the other, the rest of the planet, grouped in a “global South” with nevertheless divergent interests, of which China is the figurehead.
Visiting France, Xi Jinping remained inflexible: on the issues of the war in Ukraine and economic competition, China has made no major concessions to President Emmanuel Macron.
The divisions of the West
The fact that Xi Jinping chose France as the initial stopover for his first trip to Europe is certainly not insignificant. He thus intended to salute a country which has never broken dialogue with the communist regime and which, since De Gaulle, has always followed a policy of east-west balance, without being subservient to Washington. The Chinese president, who was then to visit Serbia and Hungary, two other nations closer to Russia, wanted, through the choice of his destinations, to underline the divisions of the West.
Indeed, on a “historic” visit to Hungary, Xi Jinping also challenged the European Union this Thursday, May 9, 2024. “Sino-Hungarian relations are at their peak” in 75 years of history, Xi welcomed Jinping. Before his arrival, he had compared them to a "golden cruise" in a forum. "We challenged the geopolitical order together in an unstable international context", charting our path "as sovereign states in complete independence", a- he writes.
A nod to the go-it-alone strategy led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban within the European Union. While scrambling with Brussels, the nationalist leader has resolutely turned towards the East in recent years. And when Brussels distanced itself from Beijing, it instead strengthened ties, rejecting the ideological confrontation of the “blocs”.
This stay of almost three days is an opportunity to "take our strategic partnership to new heights", said the Chinese head of state, from cultural exchanges to economic cooperation, while the Asian superpower has become the leading investor in Hungary last year
In addition, the fact that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz did not join Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, to welcome Xi Jinping to Paris, was also interpreted as a sign of the difficulties of the West to remain united.
The war in Ukraine
Thus the levers available to France and the Europeans to reduce China's role in the war in Ukraine are limited. The Chinese president certainly supported an “Olympic truce” during the Paris Games this summer. But Xi Jinping remains Vladimir Putin's main ally, whom he is due to receive soon. The Chinese president appears far from abandoning his support for the Russian war effort even though he has repeated that he is not supplying heavy weapons to Moscow.
Economic competition
The economy was obviously at the heart of this meeting.
If the two leaders, meeting with Ursula van der Leyen, pretended to want to move forward, they did not hide the tensions which are accumulating on trade. One of the French president's main objectives during this state visit was to advocate for a rebalancing of trade relations between Europe and China.
Xi Jinping said he was open to new high-level discussions on trade frictions while rejecting the idea of an "overcapacity problem" of China flooding European markets to sell its production. France's trade deficit with China, of 46 billion euros in 2023, remains abysmal.
Several commercial agreements were signed on Monday May 8 in the fields of energy, finance and transport, the Elysée announced. Among the announcements is a contract for Suez to build a factory intended to produce energy from sludge from around fifty wastewater treatment plants in southern China, for nearly 100 million euros.
The railway manufacturer Alstom has also obtained contracts to supply electric traction systems for metro lines in Beijing, Wuhan and Hefei. On the financial side, the insurer Groupama will create a joint venture with Shudao Group “on green finance”.
A state visit which, however, ended in diplomatic failure for France.
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STARLINER THE BOEING SPACESHIP
CANCELED FLIGHT | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Boeing Starliner May 2024.jpg) Behind the scenes of the long-awaited launch of Boeing's Starliner, a palpable electric energy permeates Cape Canaveral. Engineers, technicians and astronauts all work with minute precision, aware of the historical importance of this event.
But as tensions rise, a shadow looms over the launch site:
A technical problem compromises the takeoff.
On May 7, 2024, a day that should have marked a major milestone in space exploration, NASA and Boeing were forced to cancel the Starliner spacecraft's first manned flight to the international station.
Just two hours before the scheduled launch time, the dream faded, postponed to May 17, 2024.
The Starliner, designed to transport humans to distant celestial destinations, was to lift astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the ISS.
The preparations seemed impeccable:
The Atlas V rocket was fueled, the weather was clear, and the astronauts were ready to embark on this historic journey.
But technology, so often a source of pride and wonder, chose that day to demonstrate its fragility.
A faulty valve on the Atlas V rocket was identified as the cause of the setback, plunging Boeing and NASA into a race against time.
United Launch Alliance (ULA), the rocket's manufacturer, quickly announced that a new attempt would be considered after careful analysis of the anomaly. But this is not enough to calm the anxious minds of those involved in this mission.
For Boeing, this postponement represents much more than just a delay in the schedule.
It is a crucial test, a last chance to prove the reliability and safety of the Starliner before venturing on regular missions to the ISS.
The aerospace giant has invested years of hard work, considerable resources and immeasurable hopes into this ambitious project. The success of this test mission is therefore vital for the future of the company in the space sector.
But the stakes are just as important for NASA.
For a decade, the US space agency has pinned its hopes on the Starliner, seeking to diversify its options for transporting astronauts to the ISS. With SpaceX as a lead partner in this endeavor, the addition of the Starliner to its arsenal represents a welcome redundancy, providing crucial operational flexibility in the event of an emergency or outage.
Dana Weigel, ISS program manager, emphasizes the strategic importance of having multiple means of transportation to the space station.
She emphasizes that this would make it possible to better respond to various unforeseen scenarios, thus ensuring the continuity of operations and the safety of astronauts.
However, despite the ambitions and efforts made by Boeing and NASA, it is impossible to ignore SpaceX's undeniable dominance in the space domain.
With its Crew Dragon spacecraft already operational and several successful missions to the ISS under its belt, SpaceX has taken a considerable lead in the race to conquer inhabited space.
The postponement of the Starliner launch raises important questions about Boeing's competitiveness in the space sector, as well as NASA's ability to maintain a balance between its various partners.
As SpaceX continues to set new standards in performance and innovation, Boeing faces a significant challenge:
Prove your worth in a cutthroat competitive environment.
Despite these challenges, the very essence of space exploration remains unchanged:
Pushing the boundaries of our understanding, exploring new horizons and achieving the impossible.
Delays and obstacles are an integral part of this daring human adventure, but they must not dampen our resolve to continue our quest for knowledge and discovery in the vast expanses of infinite space.
For the moment, we can only note that only SpaceX, which has a great head start both technically and in terms of reliability, remains the master in terms of launches to get to the international space station. |
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WORRYING RETURN IN PRESS FREEDOM AROUND THE WORLD
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![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Press Freedom.jpg) May 3 is World Press Freedom Day and, on this occasion, the media are concerned about its decline throughout the world. Political pressure on the press is increasing around the world even as half the planet votes this year, warns Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in its 2024 ranking published Friday.
Norway remains at the top of this 22nd press freedom ranking, while Eritrea comes in last position, 180th, after North Korea the previous two years.
France moves from 24th to 21st place by a mechanical effect, while the country's indicators "stagnate", notes Anne Bocandé, editorial director of the NGO for the defense of journalists.
Overall, in three-quarters of nations, the conditions for practicing journalism are considered unfavorable. According to the NGO, the international community visibly lacks political will to guarantee the safety of journalists in Gaza, where more than 100 Palestinian journalists have lost their lives, including at least 22 while carrying out their duties, under fire from the Israeli army. . Journalists who work on the environment are among the most threatened in the world. 70% of them have suffered pressure or attacks in 129 countries, according to a report released by UNESCO, particularly when they denounce illegal activities such as poaching or environmental pollution.
The greatest election year in world history
More precisely, the RSF report for the year 2024 highlights a trend towards less protection of journalism by governments, or even active engagement in the propagation of disinformation. RSF highlights a “worrying deterioration in support and respect for media autonomy”, especially as “the biggest electoral year in world history” approaches, with almost half of the world's population involved in at least one election, from India to the United States, including the European elections. This situation suggests new “very strong pressures” on the media.
The NGO Civil Liberties Union for Europe
According to the latest report from the NGO Civil Liberties Union for Europe, based in Germany, press freedom is “dangerously close to the breaking point” in several countries of the European Union. And France is not really a model.
“Freedom of the press is in constant decline (…), in many countries due to willful nuisance or negligence by the governments in place,” points out the organization. This decline “goes hand in hand with the decline of the rule of law. There is a close correlation between the two.”The deterioration of the situation results in direct threats to journalists and their work. “Intimidation, surveillance and acts of violence” have been noted in several member states of the European Union. According to the NGO, in 2023, in France, Croatia, Germany and Italy, journalists have been the target of physical violence. In Romania and Sweden, attacks went unpunished “for lack of means or will” of the police, while police officers themselves directly attacked journalists physically in France and Bulgaria.
Elsewhere in the world
In Argentina (66th, -26 places), the new ultraliberal president Javier Milei announced in March the closure of the public press agency Télam, which he accuses of “propaganda”.
Control of social networks and the internet is very extensive in Vietnam (174th) and China (172nd), a country which, in addition to imprisoning the largest number of journalists in the world, practices censorship and surveillance.
In the regions of Eastern Europe and Central Asia too, restrictions on the media have increased, strikingly mirroring the repressive tactics observed in Russia, RSF experts point out. They cite in particular Belarus (167th), Georgia (103rd), Kyrgyzstan (120th) and Azerbaijan (164th). In Russia, where Vladimir Putin was re-elected in March, the ranking is 162nd. Furthermore, the arsenal of disinformation has been enriched with the introduction of generative artificial intelligence. A concrete example is an audio “deepfake” (a sophisticated montage) which targeted journalist Monika Todova in Slovakia (29th, -12 places) before the legislative elections last fall.
In Africa the situation of press freedom is worrying. The juntas that took power in Niger (80th), Burkina (86th) and Mali (114th) “continue to tighten their grip on the media and hinder the work of journalists,” she believes.
On the occasion of this special day, the city of Geneva will award this Friday the 2024 international press cartoon prize. A festival sponsored by the newspaper Le Temps, which pays tribute to one of its main inspirations, Donald Trump:
“a gift for cartoonists,” according to the newspaper.
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UNITED STATES MAJOR ISSUES IN PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATIONS ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES
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![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/University Demonstration May 2024.gif) Images of riot police intervening on campus have gone around the world and are causing strong reactions in the political world, six months before the presidential election in a polarized country. New arrests took place on Wednesday on several American campuses, scenes of a student mobilization which has shaken the United States for several days against the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Dismantling of demonstrator camps
On Wednesday, May 1, police forces were mobilized on several American university campuses, where recent arrests took place, coming after similar interventions in Los Angeles and New York, places of convergence of student mobilization against the conflict in Gaza which is agitating the country. At the University of Texas at Dallas, police dismantled a protester encampment and arrested at least 17 people for “criminal trespass,” according to information provided by the establishment.
Officials also reported that law enforcement apprehended several individuals at Fordham University in New York and evacuated an encampment established earlier in the day on campus. New York City police reported at a news conference that nearly 300 people were arrested at two university sites in the city.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the authorities used force to dislodge pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed up in a building at the prestigious Columbia University in Manhattan, the starting point of the student mobilization in favor of Gaza.
“I’m sorry it’s come to this,” Minouche Shafik, the university’s president, said Wednesday. She explained that the demonstrators were defending "an important cause", but that recent "destructive actions" carried out by "external students and activists" had led to the intervention of the police, also condemning the "anti-Semitic comments " held during these gatherings.
At Harvard, as well as at many other universities, protests broke out, accompanied by counter-protests, highlighting the differences within the student community and the growing complexity of managing confrontations. Anti-Semitic incidents, criticism of Israel and debates around support for the Palestinians fuel divisions on campus.
This polarization brings the Israeli-Palestinian question to the center of concerns, putting university leaders in a delicate position: they must in fact constantly arbitrate between the protection of freedom of expression and that of security, while maintaining good relations with donors, who represent a major source of funding for higher education institutions in the United States.
The delicate position of university presidents and the weight of donors
Particularly in the United States, university leaders face complex dilemmas. Their official statements are scrutinized not only by students and the media, but also by donors. Some benefactors have openly criticized university presidents for insufficiently firm stances towards the violence perpetrated
At the University of Pennsylvania, President Liz Magill was disavowed for having authorized the participation and expression of figures considered anti-Semitic, including Roger Waters, former frontman of the rock band Pink Floyd, at the Palestine Writes literature festival. This led to the resignation of several board members and sparked a series of protests among donors.
Harvard was also in the spotlight, following an open letter signed by numerous student organizations, published on social networks on the evening of October 7, accusing Israel of bearing responsibility for the ongoing violence. Outrage erupted over the initial silence of Harvard President Claudine Gay, who ultimately condemned the letter days later.
Influential figures such as former University President Lawrence Summers (who served as U.S. Treasury Secretary from 1999 to 2001 under Bill Clinton), as well as Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Mitt Romney (themselves former of Harvard) called for stronger measures against anti-Semitism, highlighting the risk of endangering Jewish students. Harvard has also lost the support of certain major donors, including the Wexner Foundation.
Given the economic model of large American research universities, essentially dependent on income from their capital (endowment) and patronage, donors exercise increasing influence.
The challenge of reconciling academic freedom and donor expectations spares no institution.
A challenge as the presidential election approaches
As the US presidential election approaches, it is worth taking a close look at how the Trump and Biden campaigns are responding to the ongoing student protests.
The White House condemned this Wednesday, May 1, a “small percentage of students who cause disorder.” “Students have the right to go to class and feel safe,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, spokesperson for the executive.
Biden similarly condemned “anti-Semitic protests” and “those who don’t understand what’s happening with the Palestinians.” Trump called the recent protests “anti-Semitic” and “much worse” than the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. Su Fox Nerws, the banner on the screen mentioned “anti-Israel” demonstrators. On the air, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's shadow advisor, asserted that "this is all because of Joe Biden. He and his party are fanning the embers of anti-Semitism."
In the United States, pro-Palestinian mobilization on campuses is becoming an issue in the presidential election.
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SPACEX CRUSHES COMPETITION AND EMERGESAS THE UNDISPUTED LEADER IN THE GLOBAL SPACE INDUSTRY | April 27, 2024, will be etched in the history of aerospace as the day SpaceX demonstrated its supremacy by successfully launching two Galileo satellites aboard its Falcon 9 rocket, thereby overshadowing European space pride.
SpaceX's Overwhelming Victory:
While Europe's space sector grapples with delays in the Ariane 6 program and issues with the Soyuz and Vega launchers, SpaceX has once again proven its ability to innovate and push the boundaries of space technology. SpaceX's successful deployment of the Galileo satellites highlights the undisputed superiority of American space technology and marks a turning point in space exploration history.
SpaceX has distinguished itself from its competitors with remarkable technological advancements and its ability to achieve previously unimaginable feats. SpaceX was able to complete three rocket launches within 24 hours from three different launch sites, a feat that demonstrates the reliability and efficiency of its launchers. Furthermore, SpaceX has developed technology enabling the reuse of a rocket's core twenty times, a major breakthrough revolutionizing the field of space flight.
SpaceX's resounding success in the space sector extends beyond satellite launches. The American company has also succeeded in developing a reusable space capsule, the Crew Dragon, which was recently used to send astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew program. This achievement reflects SpaceX's commitment to reducing costs and making space travel more accessible.
Decline of Europe's Space Sector:
Faced with SpaceX's repeated successes, Europe's space sector is experiencing alarming decline. The delay in the Ariane 6 program has left Europe without a means to launch new Galileo satellites, jeopardizing Europe's goal of space independence. While SpaceX continues to achieve remarkable feats in the space sector, Europe is facing significant delays in the development of its own launchers, calling into question its leadership position in the aerospace industry.
Europe's space situation is even more worrying as SpaceX continues to innovate at a rapid pace. The American company has recently developed the Starship technology, a fully reusable rocket capable of transporting passengers and cargo to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. While SpaceX prepares to launch the first manned flights to Mars in the coming years, Europe struggles to launch satellites into Earth orbit.
Challenges for Europe to Overcome:
Despite this setback, Europe remains determined to regain its space sovereignty. A new shipment of two Galileo satellites is scheduled for July 2024, this time aboard the Ariane 6 rocket. However, the delay accumulated by this program raises concerns about its reliability and its ability to meet Europe's needs for access to space. As SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of space technology, Europe must redouble its efforts to develop its own space capabilities and ensure its sovereignty in this crucial domain for its future.
Europe's space sector must also address the challenge of economic competitiveness. While SpaceX offers significantly lower rates than its European competitors, Europe must find ways to reduce its production and operating costs to remain competitive in the global space launch market.
Global Impact:
SpaceX's resounding success in the space sector marks a turning point in space exploration history and raises important questions about the future of Europe's aerospace industry. As SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of space technology, Europe must quickly adapt to remain competitive in an increasingly competitive market. By demonstrating its supremacy in the space sector, SpaceX is paving the way for a new era of space exploration, where innovation and technology will be the keys to success.
SpaceX's success in the space sector also has significant geopolitical implications. As the United States strengthens its position as a leader in space exploration, other powers such as China and Russia are also intensifying their efforts to dominate space. Europe, on the other hand, must find its place in this new space race and ensure its sovereignty in a crucial domain for its future.
The Need to Invest in Research and Development:
SpaceX's success in the space sector reflects the power and capacity for innovation of the American space industry. As SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of space technology, Europe must redouble its efforts to remain competitive in an increasingly competitive market. By investing in research and development, Europe can hope to regain its leadership position in the aerospace industry and ensure its sovereignty in space.
Europe's space sector must also collaborate more closely with the private industry to stimulate innovation and accelerate the development of new space technologies. By encouraging public-private partnerships, Europe can leverage the expertise and experience of space companies like SpaceX to strengthen its position on the global space stage.
SpaceX's resounding success in the space sector marks a turning point in space exploration history and raises important questions about the future of Europe's aerospace industry. While SpaceX continues to push the boundaries of space technology with private funding, Europe's space sector struggles to compete with the spectacular advancements of the American company, despite massive investments from European states and taxpayers.
SpaceX, a private company founded by Elon Musk, has demonstrated unprecedented innovation and efficiency in the space sector. By using private funds and avoiding the bureaucratic burden often associated with public projects, SpaceX has succeeded in achieving remarkable feats, pushing the boundaries of what was previously considered possible in space exploration.
In contrast, Europe's space sector, mainly represented by Ariane Espace, has faced numerous obstacles and delays in the development of its launchers. Despite massive investments from European states, Ariane Espace has been unable to compete with the speed and efficiency of SpaceX, leaving Europe in an increasingly precarious position on the global space stage.
Faced with this reality, Europe must rethink its space strategy and adopt a more agile and innovative approach. By investing in research and development and encouraging public-private partnerships, Europe can hope to regain its leadership position in the aerospace industry and ensure its sovereignty in space.
It is time for Europe to learn from SpaceX's success and adopt a more dynamic and ambitious approach for the future of its space program before it's too late!! |
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THE USA THE OTHER COUNTRY OF AUTOMOBILES OF EXCELLENCE | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_001.jpg) The automobile is much more than just a means of transportation in the United States, it is a true national passion that dates back to the dawn of the automobile age. If Europe, and in particular France, is recognized for its passion for classic cars, the United States has always remained the other major automobile country.
If we go back to the early days of the automobile, of course, it was Cugnot's fardier which marked the beginnings of this technological revolution, but it was across the Atlantic that the automobile really found its impetus thanks to Henry Ford and his legendary Ford T.![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarShowApril2024.gif)
The Henry Ford era and the Ford T
The major innovation brought by Henry Ford was not just the creation of a car, but the establishment of the first true production line.
The Ford T thus became the first car mass-produced on an assembly line, a concept that would revolutionize the automobile industry for decades to come.
Even today, although production methods have become modernized and automated, the basic idea remains the same: to mass produce cars efficiently and economically.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_006.jpg)
Car Gatherings in the USA
The United States has also been at the forefront when it comes to car rallies. These events are a true institution, bringing together enthusiasts from all over the country to celebrate their love of cars.
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Grand National Roadster Show, Pomona, California
The Grand National Roadster Show, held annually in Pomona, California, is one of the most prestigious events of its kind.
It attracts thousands of classic car, hot rod and street rod enthusiasts from all over the world. It’s an opportunity to discover some of the most beautiful and rare collector’s cars, but also to meet manufacturers and artists specializing in automobile customization.![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_026.jpg)
American Graffiti Parade Weekend Car Show, Modesto, California
Another major event is the American Graffiti Parade Weekend Car Show, which takes place in Modesto, California.
This event pays homage to the cult film "American Graffiti" by George Lucas, which helped popularize the car culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
Thousands of classic cars, hot rods and muscle cars are displayed there each year, attracting enthusiasts from around the world.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_029.jpg)
Detroit Autorama, Michigan
The Detroit Autorama is another must-see event for car enthusiasts.
Held annually in Detroit, Michigan, it is one of the largest auto shows in the country. Visitors can admire the latest trends in customized cars, as well as spectacular prototypes and concept cars.
It is also an opportunity to meet renowned manufacturers and designers, and to attend live tuning and customization demonstrations.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_032.jpg)
Scottsdale, Arizona
Finally, the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is also a mecca for car culture in the United States. Each year, it hosts several major events, including the famous Barrett-Jackson and RM Sotheby's collector car auctions.
These auctions attract collectors from all over the world, who come to acquire the rarest and most prestigious cars.![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/AmericanCarsApril2024/CarsApril2024_020.jpg)
In conclusion, if Europe can boast of a long tradition in collector cars, the United States undoubtedly remains the other major automobile country, with a rich and diversified history, marked by innovation. creativity and passion for the automobile in all its forms. Whether through events like the Grand National Roadster Show, the American Graffiti Parade Weekend Car Show, the Detroit Autorama or the Scottsdale auctions, American automotive culture is more alive than ever, and continues to fascinate enthusiasts around the world. entire. |
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EXTRAORDINARY LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS IN INDIA | ![](/images/stories/Articles/Flags/Flag India_m.jpg) From April 19, nearly a billion people were called to the polls in India for the legislative elections.
A logistical challenge for the country nicknamed “the largest democracy in the world”.
In total, 968 million Indians out of 1.4 billion inhabitants are expected to elect the 543 members of the lower house, more than the total population of the United States, the EU and Russia combined. . Ballots across the country will be counted on June 4.
Results are usually announced the same day.
More than six weeks of voting
The vote will therefore be spread over 44 days, or more than six weeks. It started on April 19 and will end on June 1, the Election Commission of India announced at a press conference on March 16. Throughout this period, voters will be asked to vote in stages, depending on the state or territory where they live. In total, there will be seven voting phases: April 19, April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. And to add complexity, if some of the 29 states and seven territories that make up the federation will vote in one day, others, notably Uttar Pradesh, will vote in several.
However, the same electoral system applies everywhere: a first-past-the-post ballot. Each voter chooses a candidate from among all those proposed to him and the one who receives the most votes is declared elected.
A total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, are up for grabs for a five-year term. In addition, there are two seats reserved for the Anglo-Indian community, whose members are appointed by the Indian president.
In a country long dominated by the caste system, 84 of the 543 seats are reserved for candidates from scheduled castes - that is to say Dalits (or Untouchables), in order to ensure their representativeness.
On the other hand, although the Indian government passed a bill in September aimed at reserving a third of seats for women, it will take several years before this measure comes to fruition. Currently, female MPs represent only 15% of Parliament.
A multi-party democracy but two dominant parties
A multi-party democracy, India has around 2,660 registered political parties. More than 8,000 candidates will try to run for a parliamentary mandate under the labels of these multiple groups. In 2019, only 36 parties managed to send at least one representative to the Lok Sabha.
But in reality, two parties dominate Indian political life: the nationalist BJP of Narendra Modi, and the Congress Party, the main opposition party long led by the family of Nehru Gandhi. He advocates “securalism”, that is to say the benevolence of the State towards all religions. To establish their influence in Parliament, everyone is at the head of coalitions. The BJP is thus the main component of the National Democratic Alliance, a formation classified to the right and the center right, and the Congress is for its part at the head of the United Progressive Alliance, classified to the center left.
Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is almost certain – in the face of struggling opposition – to win these elections extended over six weeks. He is still very popular after two terms during which India increased its diplomatic influence and economic weight. In 2019, the BJP won an overwhelming victory with 303 seats and its coalition, 353. The Congress party, for its part, had obtained 52 seats, and 91 with its allies.
If Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 73, wins this new election, he will sign for fifteen years at the head of India. However, after a decade in power, he enjoyed an 80% favorable opinion, according to a Pew survey published last year. |
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UNITED KINGDOM EXPULSION OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS IN RWANDA | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Map UK Rwanda.jpg) After months of legal battle, the British Parliament finally adopted a bill authorizing the return of illegal immigrants to Rwanda. This decision, presented in April 2022 by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, praised Rwanda for its reception and integration of migrants.
Despite controversies and a temporary suspension by the European Court of Human Rights in June 2022, British MPs have maintained their position. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, they voted in favor of this law allowing London to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda.
Despite Rishi Sunak's assurance that flights to Rwanda will take place, the application of this law remains uncertain, with the possibility of future interventions from the European Court of Human Rights and the British Supreme Court, which had already deemed the initial project illegal last November.
For years, Kigali has presented itself as a refuge for exiles, notably hosting the resettlement program for refugees from Libya since 2019. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Rwanda hosted approximately 135,000 refugees and asylum seekers in September 2023. However, the UK Parliament's decision to forcibly relocate immigrants thousands of miles from their original destination is widely seen as a political communications strategy.
For London, the objective is to show its firmness in the face of illegal immigration, which has seen an increase of more than 20% since the start of the year, with five people drowning, including a 7-year-old girl, in trying to cross the Channel this Tuesday. However, of the approximately 30,000 people who managed to reach the country in 2023, few would actually be affected by relocation to Rwanda.
In summer 2022, Kigali had promoted its renovated hotels as part of this operation, but a June 2022 Telegraph report revealed that refugees lacked basic resources such as food, housing and healthcare.
Furthermore, rebuilding their lives in a country with almost 20% unemployment promises to be difficult. Especially since London promised 144 million euros to Kigali. |
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THE UNITED STATES TO THE RESCUE OF UKRAINE
WITH 61 BILLION AID | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/House of Representatives.jpg) After long and laborious negotiations, the American House of Representatives adopted on Saturday April 20, 2024 a huge, crucial aid plan for Ukraine, supported by elected officials from both sides.
It had been blocked in the American Congress for several months, the aid amounting to 61 billion dollars, or 57 billion euros.
After the favorable vote of the House of Representatives, with a Republican majority, the American President, Joe Biden, can count on the support of the Senate, where the Democrats are in the majority, to finally release the financial aid of 60.8 billion dollars (56 billion euros) promised to Ukraine.
"Churchill or Chamberlain"
The tenant of the White House owes this outcome to the change of heart of the Republican speaker of Congress, Mike Johnson. This Trumpist conservative, Christian evangelist, considered that the war in Ukraine could not give rise to a game of political calculations. Also, without fear of facing the anger of a part of his camp which had cost his predecessor the place, Mike Johnson had invited the members of the House to "vote in conscience", according to their wishes. The result was unequivocal. The aid plan was validated by 311 votes to 112.
“To put it bluntly: I would rather send ammunition to Ukraine than send our boys to fight,” he pleaded. Before mentioning, not without a certain emotion, the case of his son, who is preparing to enter the Naval Academy. “This is a life-size test for me, as for so many American families,” he said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky quickly congratulated the decision, assuring that it “will prevent the war from spreading” and “save thousands and thousands of lives.” The text will arrive very quickly in the Senate, where it should be adopted without problem.
Massive help...
This massive aid that the Ukrainians were impatiently awaiting mainly includes military and economic assistance. Part of this aid actually corresponds to purchases on American soil from American manufacturers for the American army, which will be able to replenish its stocks and get rid of older equipment.
In this aid plan: $27 billion will finance the purchase of weapons for the Ukrainian army and the training of troops. 23 billion will be used to buy back weapons and ammunition from American stocks sent to kyiv. The list of equipment is not yet known.
Around 10 billion will be dedicated to economic assistance for the energy and infrastructure sectors. This non-military aid is sent in the form of a loan.
This vote by the US Congress also authorizes President Joe Biden to confiscate and sell Russian assets so that they can finance the reconstruction of Ukraine.
...But late
This aid comes at the right time for Ukrainians lacking ammunition. The CIA director said that without help, Ukraine "could lose on the battlefield by the end of 2024." The Russians are indeed encroaching on ground, benefiting from an unbalanced balance of power in terms of ammunition. Putin's army fires five times more shells than kyiv's.
It is not certain, however, that this will be enough to reverse the course of a conflict in which Russia has taken the upper hand. The Russians are also advancing in certain areas of the front line.
A Pyrrhic victory for Joe Biden which is also part of an awareness among some conservatives of a de facto alliance bringing together Russia, China and Iran, a new “axis of evil” which is raging in Ukraine but also in the Middle East and as far as Asia.
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INDONESIA ON TSUNAMI RISK ALERT
AFTER ERUPTION OF THE RUANG VOLCANO | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Ruang volcan.gif) The Ruang volcano, located on a small northern Indonesian island of the same name,has erupted five times since Tuesday. Faced with the risk of a tsunami and the paralysis of air traffic, the country is on maximum alert and is evacuating thousands of people.
The volcano threw a cloud of ash more than a kilometer high into the sky, which could “compromise flight safety”. Manado international airport, although located more than 100 kilometers from the eruption, was therefore closed Wednesday evening for 24 hours. The crater of the volcano ignited and spewed lava during the night from Wednesday to Thursday and, this morning, it was still releasing a column of smoke.
The authorities, who raised the alert level to the highest on a scale of four, announced the evacuation of 11,000 people in the area closest to Ruang. This particularly concerns the island of Tagulandang, which has around 20,000 inhabitants and to which more than 800 people living on the neighboring volcanic island were displaced after the first eruption. The instruction is to keep a distance of at least six kilometers from the volcano. A caution which does not allay all fears, since the threat of a tsunami is now worrying the authorities.
On Wednesday, the director of the Indonesian Volcanology Agency, Hendra Gunawan, explained that "residents of Tagulandang Island, especially those who reside near the beach, should be on alert for the risk of incandescent rock projections , fiery clouds and tsunami caused by the collapse of the mass of the volcano into the sea.
In 2018, the partial collapse of the crater of the Anak Krakatoa volcano, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra, triggered a tsunami and led to the death of 400 people.
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UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL
AFTER THE IRANIAN ATTACK | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahou.jpg) Israel has promised “a response” to the massive and unprecedented attack launched by Iran, despite calls from around the world, including the United States, to avoid an escalation in the Middle East, already shaken by the war in the Gaza Strip.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi once again warned on Tuesday that “the slightest action” by Israel against “Iran's interests” would provoke “a severe, widespread and painful response” from his country.
This development raises concerns about a possible deterioration of the situation, with a significant risk of regional escalation if Israel decides to retaliate in accordance with the wishes of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And the Israeli Prime Minister called for unity from the international community in the face of what he describes as “Iranian aggression threatening world peace”.
Yet the United States, which has played an active role in defending Israeli territory attacked for the first time since 1973 by a regional state power, has declared its opposition to any escalation or expanded war with Iran. They warned that they would not participate in retaliatory action while affirming their unwavering support for Israel.
An evolution of the American position?
These new official statements appear to indicate an evolution in the American position with regard to the ongoing conflict.
Indeed, for several weeks, differences have been increasing between the American administration and Netanyahu's government.
On March 25 , the United States abstained for the first time during the vote, by the United Nations Security Council, on a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas as well as the release of all the hostages. A position commented on by the Israeli Prime Minister who described it as a “clear setback” harming war efforts.
More recently, during a telephone exchange, Joe Biden allegedly threatened to condition aid to Israel on “tangible” measures if Israel did not change its way of conducting the war in Gaza.
How can we explain this evolution in the posture of Joe Biden's United States?
On the one hand, the very high human and material losses in Gaza are causing growing disapproval from public opinion even within Western countries.
On the other hand, the military objectives pursued by Israel are giving rise to more and more questions and reservations.
Indeed, among the Israeli war goals, that of eradicating Hamas presented as indisputable evidence is considered unrealistic by even Israel's allies. Military officials in Washington would consider that the maximalist objective set by the Israelis is not achievable as such.
Furthermore, in the context of the American electoral campaign, Joe Biden has everything to lose by showing unwavering support for Israel in his speeches. Part of his electorate criticizes him for “double standards” which has also cemented an anti-Western political discourse.
It is clear that the Biden administration's decision to increase humanitarian aid while continuing to provide the financial and material support necessary for the war effort creates incomprehension and frustration for part of public opinion. in the United States, particularly within the Democratic camp.
Biden cannot completely ignore it and lose part of his electorate. However, the United States remains Israel's best ally since its creation.
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WILL TARDIGRADES COLONIZE THE MOON ? | ![](/images/stories/ArticlesA7/Lunar Tartigarde.jpg) On February 22, 2019, a space probe, that is to say without a crew, was placed in orbit around the Moon with the objective of landing on the moon. It was a first because a private spacecraft had never landed on lunar soil. Additionally, the probe carried tardigrades in a dehydrated and inactive, but viable, form.
Everything was going as planned when suddenly on April 11, the probe experienced a problem with its propulsion as it began its descent. The speed was too great to slow down enough so that it crashed at over 3,000 km/h into our satellite
What happened to the tardigrades after the crash ? Are some still viable, buried under regolith, lunar dust whose depth varies from a few meters to a few tens of meters ?
Animals proof against almost anything
Tardigrades, these tiny creatures, occupy a unique place in the animal kingdom. Their size of less than a millimeter in no way reflects their remarkable complexity. Equipped with two eyes and a neuronal structure, they also have a mouth orifice at the end of a retractable proboscis, an intestine housing a microbiota, and four pairs of legs devoid of joints but equipped with sharp claws.
Their relationship with arthropods, such as insects and arachnids, is undeniable, testifying to a common evolutionary past. Although most tardigrades live in aquatic environments, their presence is felt in all environments, including the most inhospitable of urban areas. These beings fascinate mainly because of their incredible ability to withstand extreme conditions, far surpassing those encountered on Earth or the Moon. They can suspend their metabolism, losing up to 95% of their body water without apparent harm.
Some produce trehalose, an antifreeze sugar, while others synthesize proteins that transform cellular constituents into a glassy matrix, providing vital protection. Dehydration causes a dramatic reduction in their size, sometimes up to half, with the legs disappearing, leaving only claws.
In this state, called cryptobiosis, they patiently wait for more lenient conditions to return to life. However, specimens vary in their ability to withstand this desiccation, and not all are capable of resuscitation. Adult tardigrades can survive several minutes at extreme temperatures, reaching up to –272°C or 150°C, and are resistant over the long term to gamma ray doses of up to 1000 or 4400 Gray (Gy) , depending on the species. This unparalleled ability to survive defies the limits of biology and continues to amaze scientists to this day.
But difficulties...to survive
First of all, they must have survived the impact. Laboratory tests showed that frozen specimens of the species Hypsibius dujardini were intact after a vacuum impact at 2600 km/h on sand but were mutilated above 3000 km/h.
They must then resist the absence of water and withstand a cold of –170 to -190°C during the lunar night and a heat of 100 to 120°C during the day. A lunar day or night lasts a long time, a little less than 15 Earth days. Even the probe was not designed to withstand such amplitudes and had to cease all activity after only a few Earth days.
Finally, the surface of the Moon is not protected from solar particles and cosmic rays, particularly gamma rays. But there the tardigrades would be able to resist. Indeed, Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber, Professor at the University of Kiel in Germany, and his team showed that the doses of gamma rays striking the lunar surface were permanent but low compared to the doses cited previously. According to him, 10 years of exposure to gamma rays would correspond to a total dose of around 1 Gy.
Regardless, without water, oxygen or microalgae, the tardigrades will never be able to reactivate. Thus the colonization of the Moon by these animals is impossible. But specimens are on lunar soil and their presence raises ethical questions, as Matthew Silk, an ecologist at the University of Edinburgh, points out. Among these questions, there is one on the scientific level.
At a time when space exploration is taking off again in all directions, will contaminating other planets make us lose the possibility of looking for extraterrestrial life ?
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HOW TO KEEP
PERFUME ALL DAY ?
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![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/Articles/cheveux blond3.jpg) But why some skins do not hold perfume and some yes ?
You may have never calculated it but the skin is alive, it breathes, it sweats, it is even acid sometimes.
That's what leads us to say "this perfume is better than me".
The final scent is not the same as on the perfume paper strip or your best friend.
The lucky ones have a skin that makes the perfume last while others have an epidermis that does not hold it.
How to smell good all day ?
Your skin does not retain the scent ?
Perfume_you elsewhere on your body.
Have you noticed how the hair feels cold tobacco a day after night ?
This is because they absorb and retain the smells perfectly.
Its conditioning and composition allow it to hold much longer on the skin.
One or two pschitt of perfume in your hair and you're sure to smell good all day. Be careful not to use scented hair products before spraying.
Be careful not to spray perfume on light clothing or you'll try to stain it
And if you had a solid perfume ?
a very concentrated fragrance presented in the form of a wax.
To perfume, warm a dab of product in your hands and apply it. The disadvantage ? Its price is often excessive. |
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BEAUTY RITUAL
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![](http://www.daynewsworld.com/images/stories/ArticlesA3/Rituel Beauty.jpg) The e-containment allows us to rejuvenate.
And yes thank you for teleworking !
Well we are getting fat a bit, of course, because our best friend is the refrigerator and the cupboards.
But do not panic, the surgical clinics have remained open.
Hence a little liposuction over there over here and voila.
You can also have a facelift or eyelid surgery.
Easier small bites on the forehead from botox or hyaluronic acid.
But if not here is the new fad to remove your wrinkles here is the secret.
This ritual is to be done at least for a month either in the morning or in the evening or when you have the courage.
First with a cotton ball soaked in olive oil to remove makeup.
Then rinse the face with hot water and dry it, finally remove make-up with micelar water.
Then rinse her face again with ice water, then day cream and night cream serum and the ritual is over.
With these gestures your face will be smoother and you will gain five years.
Towards the bathroom, I will begin my ritual.
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Mia Kennedy for DayNewsWorld |
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