Inondations historiques : Pas-de-Calais goes to Vigilance Rouge

Météo-France placed Pas-de-Calais on red rain-flood alert at 14:00 and the North on orange flood alert, forecasting “heavy showers” in a bulletin made public on Thursday at 00:16 a.m. Pas-de-Calais has been affected by historic floods that have caused significant damage, causing schools to close for two days and should not ease until at least Friday. The Pas-de-Calais prefecture announced the closure on Thursday and Friday of schools in 74 municipalities “particularly impacted by floods”, around Saint-Omer, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Montreuil-sur-Mer

Humanitarian conference: France wants to try to unblock aid to Gaza

France is hosting a “humanitarian conference” on Thursday. It wants to try to unblock aid to Gaza, which has been made almost impossible by Israel's relentless bombing since the bloody Hamas attack on

Immigration bill: the Senate tightens regulations in high-pressure jobs

During the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the Senate issued a tightening of the most iconic part of the immigration bill, concerning regularization in high-pressure jobs, a trick deemed “acceptable” by the government, seeking an agreement to at any price in Parliament. The Senate removed the original executive measure and immediately replaced it with its own restricted device. Article 3 allowed the granting of a residence permit “in full right” to undocumented workers in sectors experiencing a shortage of labour, and article “4 bis” provides for a residence permit in these sectors of activity to be granted by the prefects “on a case-by-case basis” and “exceptionally”, in a “strictly supervised procedure” and subject to multiple conditions, including that of respect for “R & D values”. eacute; public”.

Israel's bombing: thousands of Palestinians leave

Israel claims to be tightening its grip on Gaza City and on Hamas fighters, again rejecting any ceasefire before the release of hostages held by the Islamist movement. Thousands of Palestinian civilians flee from the north of the Gaza Strip shelled by the bombings. Negotiations led by Qatar focused on the release of 12 of the 239 hostages still in the hands of Hamas, including six Americans, in exchange for a three-day humanitarian truce in territory that has been under total Israeli blockade since the bloody October 7 attack on its soil

Unemployment insurance: a possible agreement will be negotiated between unions and employers

The conditions for unemployment benefits from 2024 are suspended until a possible agreement that unions and employers will try to negotiate on Thursday and Friday. Indeed, the French government has given the social partners until 15 November to reach a conclusion, will take over if they do not reach a compromise

After a series of contested reforms, the task promises to be arduous between bosses who want to contribute less to unemployment insurance and unions that demand more rights for job seekers, or at least their maintenance.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected in Kazakhstan on Thursday. For their part, Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian leaders Ebrahim Raïssi will be

The Strasbourg Administrative Court is due to issue its decision on Thursday or Friday on the cases of widows or orphans who are victims “in turn” of nuclear tests hope to be recognized and compensated for the harm caused by the deaths of their close people.

A report published on Thursday mentions that the numerous distress calls and the lack of aerial surveillance in the Channel made British rescue operations particularly “difficult” on the night of 24 November 2021, during which 27 migrants died in a shipwreck

On matchday 4 of the Champions League group stage, Lens lost 1-0 to PSV Eindhoven, giving the Dutch club second place in their group.