AMF: Mayors refuse all the savings measures requested by the government

We do not accept any of the “savings measures” concerning local authorities presented by the government, said the chairman of the Local Finances Commission and deputy vice-president of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) André Laignel.

The Minister of the Budget Laurent Saint-Martin and the Minister for Partnership with Territories and Decentralization Catherine Vustrin presented to the Local Finance Committee, meeting at the National Assembly, a plan meeting at the National Assembly, a plan asking local authorities in 2025 to save 5 billion euros.

Mr. Laignel estimated in front of the press that the State was instead asking for “9.5 billion euros”, adding the decrease, confirmed by the ministers according to him, of 1.5 billion euros in the Green Fund next year, by 1.5 billion euros in the Green Fund next year, and the effects of inflation.

Gaza Strip: Netanyahu threatens Lebanon to suffer “destruction like in Gaza”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese to “save” their country by freeing it “from Hezbollah”, threatening otherwise the Land of the Cedars to suffer the same fate as the Gaza Strip.

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it sinks into the abyss of a long war that will cause destruction and suffering like the ones we are seeing in Gaza (...) I say to you Lebanese: free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end,” Netanyahu said in a video in English

The Israeli army announced that it had “dismantled” a tunnel dug by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon over a length of ten meters inside Israeli territory and the Lebanese National News Agency (Ani) reported that a series of strikes had caused “destruction” massive” on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, after an evacuation order from the Israeli army

France: The justice budget “will not be satisfactory”, according to Migaud

The Justice budget, which will be presented on Thursday, “will not be satisfactory”, said Justice Minister Didier Migaud before the National Assembly's Law Commission.

“I can't tell you more”, continued the Minister of Justice, affirming however that he was “mobilized” to ensure that “the main commitments are met, in particular in terms of the number of judges and clerks”.

“I think that the Prime Minister is fully aware of the priority that must be maintained and I think that his decisions will go very much in this direction”, added Didier Migaud, however, in response to questions from MPs.

Natural disaster: Florida on the alert before the arrival of Hurricane Milton moved back to maximum category

Hurricane Milton returned to maximum category on Tuesday before it made landfall in Florida on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, in what could be “the worst storm” to hit this peninsula “in a century” according to President Joe Biden.

Milton is “a major and dangerous hurricane” passed back to category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, the highest - after being downgraded to category 4, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned on Tuesday.

The hurricane moves southwest to northeast in the Gulf of Mexico. Its passage on Tuesday off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico caused no casualties, causing only some material damage

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The Kirk depression, which will sweep France on Wednesday, will cause “intense rains” from Vendée to Champagne-Ardennes and strong winds over the Pyrenees, alert Météo France, which has placed 25 departments on orange alert.

Former “papess of influence” Magali Berdah came out of the shadows to announce on Tuesday the launch of an international agency representing 990 influencers in more than 20 countries.

The founder of an ultra-right group called Vengeance Patriote was sentenced Tuesday evening to five years in prison for having distributed on the Internet books banned in France and advocating the passage of terrorist acts on the Internet.

Brazilians will again be able to use the social network X, after the suspension imposed by a Supreme Court judge at the end of August was lifted on Tuesday in the name of the fight against disinformation.

The defender of the France team Ibrahima Konaté “does not even have the words to describe the horror” of the war in Gaza or Lebanon, he said, asked about the subject two days before a match against Israel.