Covid: mask is no longer mandatory in transport

Wearing a mask is no longer mandatory from Monday in France transport, a relief that marks the disappearance of the last major anti-Covid restriction in a context of health lull. "The government decides, as of May 16, 2022, to end the obligation to wear a mask in the public transport," summed up last week the Directorate General of Health (DGS) which reports directly to the ministry. Until now, the wearing of masks was imposed on subways, buses, trains, planes and taxis. This is the end of the last major marker of the Covid-19 epidemic in the public space, a decision that confirms the fact that the disease has become a lesser health and political concern, more than two years after the arrival of the pandemic in Europe. In recent weeks, Covid-related infections and hospitalizations have finally decreased after a very long winter wave.

Ukraine: Russia focuses on Donbass and undergoes a counter-offensive in Kharkiv

Ukracons prepares for an intensification of Russian attacks in the donbass, in the east of the country, Moscow's priority objective but where its forces are losing momentum, while the Ukrainian army continues its counter-offensive in the Kharkiv region. Russia to attack in Donbass, to somehow intensify its movement towards the south of Ukraine," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video released Sunday night. And yet according to him, "the occupiers still do not want to admit that they are at an impasse". The Russians are transferring troops from the Kharkiv region (north) to that of Lugansk, in Donbass, with the aim of taking Severodonetsk, ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said Sunday evening. The Ukrainian military also announced Monday morning that it had blown up a Russian-controlled railway bridge, connecting Rubhyzhy and Severodonetsk, two of Moscow's targets. "We are preparing for major offensives in Severodonetsk, and around the Lysytchansk-Bakhmut axis," Sergi gaidai, Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region, which together with Donetsk forms the Donbass mining basin, said on Saturday. It also described an increasingly critical humanitarian situation.

Tennis: Djokovic crowned in Rome for the sixth time by outclassing Tsitsipas

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic outclassed Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas (5th in the world) 6-0, 7-6 (7/5) to win the Rome Masters 1000 for the sixth time, a week before the start of Roland Garros (22 May-5 June). Succeeding Rafael Nadal, emperor with ten Roman coronations eliminated this year in eighth, the 34-year-old Serb wins his first title of the year, confirming his return to great form after a first quarter almost at a standstill due to his non-vaccination against Covid.

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Makein announced its withdrawal from the G5 Sahel and its anti-jihadist military force in protest at its refusal to assume the presidency of this regional organization formed with Mauritania, Chad, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Sa somalia has elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud as president for the second time, at a time when the Horn of Africa country is facing an Islamist insurgency and looming famine.

Paris Saint-Germain and women's France striker Marie-Antoinette Katoto, 23, was voted for the first time best player of the season at the UNFP Trophies, succeeding her teammate Kadidiatou Diani.

KYlian Mbappé, star of PSG, won his third UNFP trophy for best player in a row, without revealing if his reign would end when leaving Paris Saint-Germain, but he announced that he had "almost" stopped his choice, Sunday.