Climate action: Wave of calls for environmentalists, confirmed dissolution of the Earth Uprisings

Fourteen people were taken into custody on Tuesday in the investigation into the action taken against a Lafarge cement factory in Provence by environmental activists in late 2022, while the government confirmed the dissolution of the Uprisings of the Earth movement, which had “supported” this action.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced that he would present to the Council of Ministers the decree dissolving the environmental collective SLT on Wednesday, which denounced “a very political and particularly worrying dissolution” and lambasted the arrests as “a communication and intimidation operation against the social movement as a whole.”

The people arrested in the “disarmament” investigation, in the words of the activists, at the Lafarge factory, are suspected of “defacing an organized group by dangerous means”, “degradation in meetings” and “criminal association”, the prosecution explained to AFP.

North Atlantic: Mobilization to find a missing submersible near the Titanic

The American armed forces, supported by Canada and France, hope to rescue by Thursday one American, one French, one British, and two Pakistani passengers on a tourist submarine that went down to visit the Titanic wreck from 4,000 meters deep in the North Atlantic. At midday Tuesday, the US Coast Guard warned at a press conference in Boston (northeast) that there were “about 40 hours of breathable air” left in this small submersible and that the “particularly complex” searches launched Sunday had so far “yielded no

Designed to take five people into the abyss, about 6.5 meters long, the Titan began its descent Sunday off the northeastern American coast and contact with the craft was lost less than two hours after it left.

Soccer: Frenchman N'Golo Kante joins Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia

Heading to Saudi Arabia for N'Golo Kante: The Al-Ittihad club announced on Wednesday that it had recruited Chelsea midfielder and 2018 French world champion, who is joining fellow countryman Karim Benzema. “Don't listen to fake news. Kanté is an Ittihad player now! “tweeted the Jeddah club with a photo of the soccer player wearing his yellow and black striped jersey, then a video of Benzema welcoming

"I am happy to play with you again. And of course, on the best team in Saudi Arabia. See you soon in Jeddah,” said the 2022 Ballon d'Or, who signed a three-season contract with Al-Ittihad in June. “I am very excited to play with the Tigers, in front of the fans in Al-Jawhara (the jewel),” the club's stadium in Jeddah, said Kante in the

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During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the security forces ended the occupation of the Palais Royal square in the center of Paris by some 450 migrants and community activists calling for shelter, an AFP journalist noted.

Thirteen heads of state, government and political leaders, including Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden, pledged to “advance on concrete measures” for a “fair and inclusive ecological transition”, Wednesday in an opinion piece published in the French daily Le Monde.

MEPs voted on Tuesday to create a customs “operational reserve” to provide “support” to customs officers, despite serious concerns on the left that instead call for more staff.

Twenty-two departments were placed on orange alert Tuesday night to Wednesday for violent storms, which caused flooding, falling trees and power outages, and are spreading to the east of the country.

- US President Joe Biden considered his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to belong to the category of “dictators” on Tuesday at a reception in California with Democratic Party donors, in the presence of journalists.