Council of Ministers: the political return to Paris

Emmanuel Macron convened the Council of Ministers on Wednesday to kick off a political comeback. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne will be on France Bleu at noon. While Emmanuel Macron must “lay the foundations for the new school year” with “very strong markers of authority and unity”, less than two months after the urban riots. In an interview with the weekly expected Wednesday, he will detail his “unprecedented” political initiative, which will be implemented “quickly”.

Shooting in Nîmes against a background of drug trafficking: a ten-year-old child killed

A war between drug traffickers caused the death of a ten-year-old child on Monday in Nîmes; The child is shot in the popular district of Pissevin, where police reinforcements have arrived to “secure” frightened residents. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter Tuesday morning that “a 10-year-old child was killed during what seems to be a settling of accounts between traffickers. It is an immense tragedy that will not go unpunished” before calling the family of the deceased child. Around twenty police officers from CRS 8, a unit specializing in maintaining order in urban areas, deployed shortly after 15:00 in the sensitive district of Pissevin, where the poverty rate exceeds 70% and the unemployment rate reaches 46%.

Russian attack: Moscow destroys two Ukrainian military ships in the Black Sea

Yesterday Tuesday, Russia claimed to have “destroyed” two Ukrainian military vessels in the Black Sea, the latest maritime clashes since slamming the door on an agreement to export Ukrainian grain. Moscow has also repelled a new armed incursion from Ukraine into the Bryansk border region and destroyed drones near the capital. For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry sank a Ukrainian military ship in an area under its control and an American-made Ukrainian military speedboat off Snake Island, liberated last year by Kiev.

Historical mission: India wants to land its unmanned rocket on the moon on Wednesday

India is preparing to land its unmanned rocket on the Moon on Wednesday. Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the Moon shortly after 18:00 India time (12:30 GMT), near the little-explored lunar south pole, a world first for a space program. This new attempt by the Indian program comes four years after a disastrous failure, with the ground team losing contact shortly before arriving on the Moon.
Developed by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Chandrayaan-3 includes a landing module called Vikram, meaning “valour” in Sanskrit, and a mobile robot, called Pragyan (“wisdom” in Sanskrit

AT A GLANCE

Russia said early Wednesday that Russian air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian drones in Moscow and the region, targeted by a sixth consecutive day of attacks that again caused no casualties.

Firefighters indicated that a fire that occurred yesterday evening in a three-storey building in Mantes-la-Ville (Yvelines) injured eight people, including one serious.

The prosecutor's office announces that the company SCNF Réseau, a SNCF subsidiary in charge of road maintenance, was fined 450,000 euros by the Angers Criminal Court on Tuesday. She is accused of complicity in harming the environment

A district in the north of Athens is threatened by important indicators that also affect other regions of Greece. Twenty victims were reported in two days. Greek authorities ordered the evacuation of this neighborhood on Tuesday.

At the World Championships in Budapest, where Italian Gianmarco Tamberi gave the show on Tuesday evening, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon won gold in the 1500m for the third time.