State visit of Charles III to France: towards celebrating the revival of Franco-British friendship

Charles III begins today a three-day state visit to France, full of solemnity and pomp. This visit is intended to celebrate the revival of Franco-British friendship after the turmoil of Brexit. Everything was canceled in March, at the last minute amid violent protests in France against pension reform. According to the Elysée, “the visit comes in a context of closer ties between the United Kingdom and France” after an initial phase of “reconnection”.

War in Ukraine: Zelensky versus Russia

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine stalls, the Ukrainian president is thus continuing his diplomatic offensive in New York where the world's great leaders are meeting, in the notable absence of the Chinese Xi Jinping and the Russian Vladimir Putin. Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to address the UN Security Council, facing Russia, a permanent member, for the first time since the start of the war.

Fighting in Karabakh resumed on Tuesday: 29 dead already, the international community is worried

Three years after a war that resulted in a military rout of Armenia, the fighting initiated on Tuesday in Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijan has already caused 29 deaths and aroused the concern of the international community. The resumption of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan took place on Tuesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. France calls for an “emergency” meeting of the Security Council to take note of an “illegal” and “unjustifiable” offensive led by Baku in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Stocamine: Christophe Béchu calls for the containment of toxic waste, LFI calls for a parliamentary commission of inquiry

Yesterday, the Minister for Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, announced his intention to start “immediately” the work to contain toxic waste in Stocamine. In a press release, Béchu announced Tuesday evening that he wanted to trigger “immediately” the containment work under the concrete of the 42,000 tons of toxic waste (arsenic, mercury, asbestos, etc.) stored in this former potash mine located in Wittelsheim (Haut-Rhin). He believes that they must “imperatively be completed by 2027". But the LFI deputies responded by calling for a parliamentary commission of inquiry.

AT A GLANCE

Joe Biden calls for “authorizing now” the sending of an international force to Haiti to help the police fight against gangs. The United Nations Security Council is concerned with this call.

Following a demonstration by residents demanding accountability from the authorities, communications are cut off in Derna and journalists have been asked to leave the eastern Libyan city recently devastated by deadly floods .

The Palestinian Ministry of Health, the Israeli Army announced that three Palestinians were killed in the evening in Jenin by Israeli fire. For its part, the ministry announced that it had carried out an operation in the refugee camp in this city in the northern West Bank.

According to a Unicef report published on Wednesday, multiple administrative obstacles restrict the educational path of 25,000 minors isolated on French territory, favoring their learning delay, these young migrants losing up to three years of schooling.

Several Spanish international female footballers showed up at their selection rally even though they had said the day before that they did not want to play with La Roja again. Most of them have been on strike since the Rubiales case and the strikers have returned against their will, due to the potential sanctions