Climate: 52 French departments placed on alert for snow, ice and wind

Winter is coming to France on Thursday with the arrival of storm Caetano. 52 departments are placed on alert for snow, ice and wind. According to Météo-France on its website, this storm “will cross France from west to east and cause an early winter episode that is sufficiently significant to make traffic conditions difficult in the regions concerned”. Météo-France has placed 52 departments on orange alert, including 33 for snow-ice, mainly in the northern part of the country and in the Alps, and 19 percent for wind, from Loire-Atlantique to Gironde then on a line going as far as Savoy

SNCF strike: localized disturbances

The day after announcements of moderate wage increases for 2025, Thursday's strike at SNCF at the call of all the group's unions was not massively followed. Only seven out of ten TER and one Intercity out of two will run compared to usual. In the Paris region, the Transilien R lines and the RER D, traditional strongholds of the Sud-Rail union, will be the most affected with only one train

Farmers: Agriculture Minister makes her first field visit

The Minister of Agriculture is making her first field visit to Pas-de-Calais on Thursday since the peasants returned to the streets. Blockages of logistics platforms continued on Wednesday, in particular access to the commercial port of Bordeaux and large-scale retail purchasing centers in the South-West, stronghold of this competing union of the FNSEA-Young Farmers tandem. Supermarkets were also targeted.

Senate: a new “contribution” of 7 hours of unpaid work per year voted

The Senate passed a shocking measure on Wednesday. It's about making all working people work without pay for seven more hours a year plus bailing out Social Security. The Senate pleads for this “solidarity contribution”, which is supposed to bring 2.5 billion euros each year to the autonomy sector. The upper house approved this measure by 216 votes to 119, which would come on top of the “solidarity day” already practised and aimed at old age and disability.

Russian strike: Ukraine uses British Storm Shadow long-range missiles in Russia

A day after the similar launch of American ATACMS missiles, British media announced on Wednesday that Ukraine used British Storm Shadow long-range missiles against Russian territory for the first time against Russian territory for the first time, after obtaining permission from London. Kiev had long called for authorization to use these weapons but Westerners feared the reaction of Moscow, which presented this as a

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A volcano erupted overnight from Wednesday to Thursday on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwest Iceland. According to the meteorological services, it is the seventh since last December

The Syrian Defense Ministry reported that at least 36 people were killed Wednesday in Israeli strikes on the thousand-year-old city of Palmyra.

In order to approve the new Commission team, whose vice-presidency was awarded to the extreme right, the right, the centre and the social democrats finally reached an agreement in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Bitcoin crossed the $95,000 mark for the first time on Thursday. The market expects more flexible legislation and economic policies that would be favorable to it under the future American administration.

Paris Saint-Germain Handball was swept (39-28) on the 8th day of the Champions League.