Hollowance or culture places: The sanitary pass now mandatory in France

To go to the cinema, museum or sports establishments, the French must now present proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test while the number of contaminations explodes, due to the delta variant, more contagious. With 18,000 infections in 24 hours, "we have an increase in the circulation of the virus of the order of 150% over a week: we have never experienced this," warned Tuesday the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran. While the government no longer hesitates to speak of a "fourth wave" and the outdoor mask is back in tourist areas where the epidemic is restarting (Haute-Garonne, Charente-Maritime...), the Defense Council meets on Wednesday, day of the application of the health pass in places of leisure and culture gathering more than 50 people (against 1,000 previously).

Macron and ministers listened to with Pegasus?

Have Macron been spied on by a foreign power? The question arises after the revelation that the head of state and members of the government are on the list of potential targets of the Pegasus software, used by some states to spy on personalities. Le Monde and Radio France, which are part of the consortium of 17 media outlets that had access to the list obtained by the network of journalists Forbidden Stories and the NGO Amnesty International, revealed on Tuesday that these issues, including that of former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and 14 members of the government, are "in the list of numbers selected by a Moroccan state security service, user of the Pegasus spyware, for a potential hack". The Cherifian kingdom disputes its involvement in this espionage case and King Mohammed VI and his entourage "are on the list of potential targets".

IN BRIEF

Two days before the official opening ceremony, the sporting events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games kicked off on Wednesday in Fukushima at 09:00 local time (00:00 GMT), with the match of softball, the women's version of baseball, between Japan and Australia.

Asterminous film producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been serving a 23-year prison sentence for sexual assault in New York city since 2020, was on Tuesday en route to Los Angeles where he will face further assaults in a second trial.