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With a call to rethink the law on the non-accumulation of mandates, bilateral talks to form a government, the new prime minister is freeing himself from the head of state, after having imposed himself on him.
The "exceptional" tropical cyclone Chido wreaked havoc on Saturday in France's poorest department, where precarious housing was completely destroyed. Bruno Retailleau estimated that "it will probably take days" to "refine" the human toll.
The director of "Moonlight" gave in to the sirens of Disney and its fertile franchise. In a blockbuster all in computer-generated images, the filmmaker looks back at Mufasa's childhood. Without taking an interest in the true origins of this African legend.
The emergency text intended to avoid the shutdown was unanimously adopted on Monday by MPs. But already bitter debates are emerging on the measures to be taken to deal with the budgetary crisis.
Ukraine's president said on Saturday that Russia had begun mobilizing "a significant number" of North Korean troops in order to push back Ukrainian troops.
The NGO counted "61 strikes in less than five hours" on Saturday night by Israel, which has intensified its strikes on its neighbour since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, bringing to "446 the total number of air raids since 8 December".
The profound diversity of Syrian society, political even more than communal, must structure a transition that is as patient as it is gradual, while the international obsession with "stability" could feed the perilous temptation of a new "strongman".
The new tenant of Matignon began his consultations on Saturday with a view to forming a government. In Beauvau, Bruno Retailleau has "given an impetus", pleaded Gérard Larcher in an interview with "La Tribune Dimanche". François Bayrou is due to meet this weekend with the leaders of parliamentary groups.
The competition had decided, for the first time this year, to lift all age limits. At 34 years old, Angélique Angarni-Filopon, an air hostess who had already introduced herself in 2011, succeeds Eve Gilles.
"Le Monde" offers a selection of gifts for your loved ones eager for new sensations. Learning practices, subscriptions to ethical pornography platforms, tickets for parties or buttocks festivals, here are some naughty entertainments to put under the tree.
Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani also announced that the factions that contributed to the fall of Bashar Al-Assad will be "dissolved", and their members integrated into the army of the new government.
Discovered in 2008 at the bottom of the Charente, the remains of the boats were slow to be excavated. The campaigns carried out since 2015 have revealed the importance of this archaeological heritage and the need to protect it.
After the far right, the centre, the Socialists and the right on Monday, the new prime minister will receive representatives of the Greens, the MoDem, Horizons, the independents of LIOT, the Communists, and the former Les Républicains Eric Ciotti. Mr. Bayrou will also spend his first major oral in the Assembly by answering, alone, the questions of the deputies.
This is the first time that a pontiff has visited the island. Francis will celebrate Mass on Sunday, December 15, after participating in a symposium on "popular religiosity in the Mediterranean" and strolling through the city of Ajaccio, among others.
The shooting took place at a Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, where the young girl suspected of the shooting, who appears to have committed suicide, was a student. Six students were also injured, two of whom are between life and death. Joe Biden called the shooting "shocking and unconscionable."
The US president is devoting his final weeks in the White House to consolidating his legacy, while the media and foreign leaders are already focused on the Trump administration.
A homemade device placed on an electric scooter parked near the building is believed to be the cause of the explosion on Tuesday morning. "The commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, and his deputy were killed," according to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
It is possible to eliminate the public deficit without going through austerity, say economists Laurent Cappelletti and Henri Savall in an article in Le Monde: a vast managerial reform, carried out in all public organisations and companies in the country, would make it possible to free up several tens of billions of euros in one year.
"No place has been spared," said the resigned Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, on Monday during his whirlwind visit to the island. Almost three days after the passage of Cyclone Chido, reinforcements and rescue efforts are gradually being organized in the poorest department in France.
Inspired by the traditional dinner for media correspondents at the White House, the event organized by the American political news site named Italy's Giorgia Meloni as "the most powerful personality in Europe."