France: the 77th Cannes Film Festival opens on Tuesday with the MeToo wave

The 77th Cannes Film Festival opens today with the MeToo wave in everyone's mind, and on the red carpet, a parade of stars including a Hollywood legend, Meryl Streep, guest of honor. The subject of sexual violence is present as rarely, seven years after the fall of American producer Harvey Weinstein, and five months after Judith Godrèche spoke in France

New Caledonia: Deputies want to expand the electorate specific to the provincial election

This afternoon, deputies will resume the heated examination of a constitutional revision aimed at expanding the electorate specific to the New Caledonia provincial election, a sensitive point that is reviving tensions between loyalists and Indians. Ependantists in the archipelago, where a curfew has been declared. During a high-tension discussion, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin called on the deputies to adopt without modification this reform, which opens the Caledonian provincial election to residents who have lived on the island for at least ten years

Roman Polanski trial: the filmmaker will be decided on his fate on Tuesday

Filmmaker Roman Polanski will be decided on his fate on Tuesday in the trial between him and British actress Charlotte Lewis. He is being sued for defamation for calling her a liar when she accuses him of rape. The 17th Criminal Chamber of the Paris Judicial Court will make its decision known at 13:30. The judges only need to decide whether or not the Franco-Polish filmmaker abused his freedom of expression in an interview published by Paris Match in

Immigration in Europe: The EU adopts the migration pact

On Tuesday, EU countries are giving their final green light to the Pact on Migration and Asylum, a major reform that tightens immigration controls in Europe, but some of them are already calling for more. The reform establishes a procedure for “screening” migrants at EU borders to identify them and more quickly distinguish those who are likely to obtain asylum from those who are destined to be returned to their country of origin. It also establishes a solidarity mechanism between the 27 countries in the care of asylum seekers.

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The day after a similar visit by his rebellious competitor Manon Aubry, the head of the PS/Place Publique European list Raphaël Glucksmann wants to give some money to the left on the social issue with a trip to Amiens to the employees of the plant of the biochemist Metex, in

The big bang of public broadcasting begins its legislative journey in committee at the Assembly on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a podcast that about half of the people killed in Gaza since the start of the war were “Hamas fighters.”

The Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal will say at 14:00 whether it confirms the ineligibility sentence imposed on the ex-mayor of Toulon for meals paid for years by the department.

Kylian Mbappé was elected best player in Ligue 1 by his peers for the fifth time in a row, during the UNFP Trophies ceremony, at the Armenonville Pavilion in Paris.