New Military Programming Law: the review started yesterday

Deputies began consideration of the bill calling for a sharp increase in the military budget on Monday afternoon, with the presidential camp and the opposition beginning a battle of doctrines and figures that should last two weeks. The envelope of this new military programming law (LPM), estimated at 413 billion euros over seven years (2024-2030), is significantly higher than the previous one (295 billion for 2019-2025), but the oppositions denounce “announcement effects”. The objective of this bill is to renovate equipment, modernize nuclear deterrence, improve the treatment of troops, renew equipment but also to invest in cyber, space and seabed control.

Cannes: The director of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” returns to competition on Tuesday

The director of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or “On Board the Darjeeling Limited” returns to competition in Cannes on Tuesday with “Asteroid City”, and a breathtaking new cast. The American filmmaker, known for his ironic and old-fashioned style, once again surrounds himself with stars who should make the flashes crackle as he climbs the stairs. Two years after “The French Dispatch”, which took place in a postcard France, he returns to the competition and this time sets his action in a fictional American city in the middle of the desert, bringing together parents and students for scholarly competitions

New Ukrainian attack: an incursion of armed fighters into Belgorod

The Russian Belgorod region has been targeted by an incursion of armed fighters from Ukraine. Russia has declared an “anti-terrorist” regime and has evacuated civilians to try to repel this new attack on its soil. Several villages are hit by shells. This is the first time since the invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.

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Two men were arrested by police in Brazil when they tried to flee to that country. They are suspected of being involved in the death of policeman Arnaud Blanc in French Guiana on 25 March

The distributor from Saint-Etienne has given itself until 5 p.m. on Tuesday to launch a possible conciliation procedure with its creditors.

A possibly “malicious” fire at a girls' school dormitory in Mahdia, a landlocked mining town in this small country in northeastern South America killed nineteen young people on Sunday evening.

At the end of the general meeting in Slawomir Krupa on Tuesday, Frédéric Oudéa, CEO of Societe Generale, will hand over the baton to Slawomir Krupa, whose mission will be to make people forget fifteen years of turmoil.

In the wake of new insults against Vinicius, the Brazilian striker for Real Madrid, during a Spanish soccer match, who was once again confronted with the scourge of racism in his stadiums, the Spanish courts opened an investigation yesterday.