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Carlos Ghosn case: Rachida Dati indicted for “passive corruption”. The former minister of Nicolas Sarkozy is targeted by an investigation by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office on her consulting services as a lawyer with the Nissan-Renault alliance, chaired by Carlos Ghosn between 2010 and 2013, when she was elected in the European Parliament.
JO: Clarisse Agbégnénou, mental gold. In 2016, during the Rio Olympics, the Frenchwoman failed in the under 63 kg final. This Tuesday, she adorned herself with gold, taking revenge on the reigning Olympic champion. “Revenge, here in Japan, it adds magic”, she explains to Release. In taekwondo, Althéa Laurin brings back bronze. On the other hand, the boxer Maïva Hamadouche suffered a bitter defeat by decision of the judges.
Unemployment: further significant drop in the second quarter. The decline continues. The number of category A job seekers registered with Pôle Emploi (excluding Mayotte) fell by 1.3% during the second quarter of 2021, to 3.75 million people looking for work, according to reports. figures from the Directorate of Research, Studies and Statistics (Dares), released on Tuesday. Over one year, the drop is 14.8%: a significant drop but still insufficient to return to the pre-crisis level (just over 3.5 million unemployed in the fourth quarter of 2019). If we add categories B and C (which exercise a reduced activity of short or long duration), the number of job seekers reaches nearly 6 million people.
The wave of Covid hits the hospital, the government wants “to convinceOn vaccination. While France has been facing a surge in contamination since the beginning of July due to the delta variant, which is more contagious, and the lifting of the latest restrictions, the pressure on the hospital has hitherto remained contained. But for two weeks, hospital indicators have started to rise again. Nearly 1,000 patients with Covid-19 are hospitalized on Tuesday in intensive care units, a figure that has been rising slightly for several days, according to data from Public Health France. 28 deaths in hospital have also been recorded since the day before. Prime Minister Jean Castex, visiting Seine-Saint-Denis to “to convince” residents to be vaccinated, said he was convinced that the new target of 50 million first-time vaccinated by the end of August would be reached, against 40 million currently.
The city of Nice as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. After the Cordouan lighthouse and the city of Vichy, it is the turn of the city of the Côte d’Azur to be honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization , under “Winter resort town of the Riviera”.
Germany: one dead and several missing in the explosion of a factory in Leverkusen. Significant fumes escaped on Tuesday from a waste treatment center in this city in the west of the country. At least sixteen employees were injured and four are missing. The event has been classified in the category “Extreme danger” by the authorities.
Presidential: Philippe Juvin, doctor in the countryside. Candidate for a primary of the right and the center still refused by the leadership of his party, the doctor and mayor of La Garenne-Colombes wants to capitalize on his media exposure during the health crisis and his experience as a local elected official in Ile-de- France.
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In West Africa, the HIV self-test is entering the scene. They are about ten young men, sitting in the living room of an isolated house in Kati, in the suburbs of Bamako, in Mali. Mohamed (the first name has been changed) came to present the new HIV self-tests. He opens a kit, takes out a spatula and shows how to run it over his gums before dipping it into the reagent tube. “In twenty minutes you can know if you are HIV positive or not”, he concludes. Silent approvals in the attentive assembly. Reportage.
How our health data is transmitted by pharmacists to an American company. Almost half of French pharmacies transmit personal information (pathologies, treatments followed, etc.), partially anonymized, to the company IQVia. It is now possible to oppose it and demand the deletion of those already stored. Our explanations.
In French universities, work directed by Beijing. Attractive partnerships, pressure on researchers… Developed at the top of the Party-State, China’s strategy of influence extends to French universities, aided by the naivety of a French academic environment little aware of the risks. Investigation.
The most expensive fries in the world cost $ 200 (but don’t want it). The New York restaurant Serendipity 3 set the record for the most expensive portion of fries in the world, validated by the Guinness July 12. It is sold for $ 200, or just under 170 euros. The recipe is here.
Covid-19: those countries in Europe where the epidemic is slowing down. The surge in new cases caused by the delta variant appears to be calming in several countries on the continent, including England, but is mounting in Iceland and France. Attempt of explanations.
