Rennes: the Ivo Depression will reinforce floods in the West
On Wednesday, the Ivo Depression will bring its share of heavy rains and increase the level of floods in the departments of Ille-et-Vilaine, Loire-Atlantique and Morbihan, kept on a red alert for floods. According to the minister attached to the Minister of the Interior François-Noël Buffet, visiting Rennes on Tuesday, “it is a very exceptional situation which clearly goes beyond the known history, in any case, in terms of floods on the

Stampede during the giant Hindu pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela: at least 15 dead

During a stampede during the giant Hindu pilgrimage of Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj in northern India, at least 15 people were killed and numerous others injured overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday. This gathering, which is held every 12 years and is presented as the most important on the planet, brings together tens of millions of followers for six weeks from all over the country and abroad to swim at the confluence of the sacred rivers of the Ganges and the Yamuna.

DR Congo: The fate of Goma seems sealed Wednesday

The fate of Goma seems sealed on Wednesday. It is a large city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Before a meeting scheduled for the day between the Congolese and Rwandan leaders, the M23 and the Rwandan army control the airport and now occupy almost all of the center and the suburbs. The meeting between Congolese presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Paul Kagame, convened by Kenya, should try to resolve this new crisis in the border region, which has been shaken for 30 years by violence

The head of American diplomacy Marco Rubio called for an “immediate ceasefire” on Tuesday.

Breast cancer: a law passed unanimously to improve health care

In an effort to alleviate the often high burden on patients, deputies unanimously approved a law on Tuesday evening to improve the management of breast cancer care. The most frequent and most deadly cancer among women, it places many of them in a fragile financial situation, with an often high burden of out-of-pocket expenses and numerous non-reimbursed ancillary treatments. According to the rapporteur of the text to the Assembly, the communist deputy Yannick Monnet, with a balance of “1,400 euros on average”, the “most precarious” patients renounce treatments or products that are not covered or insufficiently reimbursed. S& which prove to be too expensive

Drug trafficking law: the Senate approves the creation of a specialized prosecutor's office
The Senate adopted on Tuesday the flagship measure of a transpartisan bill strongly supported by the government, in search of a “national surge” in the face of drug traffickers. Drug trafficking is at the heart of discussions in the upper house until Wednesday, with the examination of the text by senators Étienne Blanc (Les Républicains) and Jérôme Durain (Socialist Party), erected as an “absolute priority” of the government by Gérald Darmanin, and as an “existential threat” by Bruno Retailleau.

IN SHORT

A man tried from Wednesday before the Gironde Assize Court for murdering his ex-partner, who had alerted the courts for months to the violence and harassment she was suffering.

As part of a broad offensive to cut public spending, the Donald Trump government on Tuesday offered federal officials who wish to do so to resign in exchange for compensation, after ordering the freezing of billions of dollars in grants.

The César nominations are expected on Wednesday, after a successful year for French cinema, which was acclaimed by the public.

The Angoulême Grand Prix for comic books, equivalent to the Nobel Prize for the 9th art, was awarded on Wednesday with the certainty of crowning an author again

The president of Olympique Lyonnais John Textor announced on Monday that the Portuguese Paulo Fonseca will be the next Lyon coach to replace the dismissed Pierre Sage.