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  • Ideal framework to fight terrorism in West Africa

    Ideal framework to fight terrorism in West Africa

    The countries of the Gulf of Guinea are active in the face of the multiplication of jihadist attacks.

    A Togolese soldier, holding a machine gun, stands watch under a tree surrounded by used tires as he monitors procedures at Yemboate, the northern Togo border post with Burkina Faso, February 17, 2020. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

    Terrorist attacks are on the rise in Benin, a state that is seeking to strengthen its partnerships to deal with them. (more…)

  • Kherson: Civilians leave bombarded city behind

    Kherson: Civilians leave bombarded city behind

    Under pressure from Ukrainian troops, pro-Russian leaders have just called for the emergency evacuation of the population. Is it to make way for the Russian army and new battles? kyiv denounces in any case a massive deportation of the Ukrainian population. The team of Luc Lacroix, special correspondent for France Televisions, is on site, in Kherson, exclusively.

    The operation is delicate. Lying on stretchers, these patients are transferred to a boat. It’s the only way to leave the city. Faced with the advancing Ukrainians, the Russians asked the civilians to evacuate Kherson. They leave behind them a city in the grip of bombardments. (more…)

  • Ukraine: what to remember from Thursday

    Ukraine: what to remember from Thursday

    EU member countries, as well as the United Kingdom, adopted sanctions on Thursday against Iran, accused of supplying drones to Russia.

    A woman walks in front of a building destroyed by a drone strike, in kyiv (Ukraine), October 17, 2022. (SOPA IMAGES / OLEKSII CHUMACHENKO / SIPA)

    EU member countries adopted sanctions on Thursday (October 20th) against Iran, accused of supplying drones to Russia, used in the conflict. (more…)

  • Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky accuses the Russians of having mined a dam in southern Ukraine

    Ukraine: Volodymyr Zelensky accuses the Russians of having mined a dam in southern Ukraine

    It is a dam of a hydroelectric power station located in the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, and under the control of Moscow forces.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on October 20, 2022, in kyiv (Ukraine). (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday (October 20th) accused the Russians of having mined a dam at a hydroelectric power station located in the Kherson

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  • Social Security budget: the deputies of the Nupes alliance announce the tabling of a motion of censure after the second 49.3

    Social Security budget: the deputies of the Nupes alliance announce the tabling of a motion of censure after the second 49.3

    Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne again engaged the government’s responsibility on Thursday on the revenue part of the Social Security financing bill by means of article 49.3 of the Constitution.

    LFI leader Mathilde Panot at the National Assembly, in Paris, on October 11, 2022. (XOSE BOUZAS / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

    This live is now over.

    The deputies of the left alliance Nupes tabled a new motion of censure against the government after the triggering, Thursday, October 20, of 49.3 to pass the revenue part of the social security budget without a vote, announced the boss of the LFI group. , Mathilde Panot. “We are going to table a motion of censure again”, like Wednesday after the use of 49.3 also on the state budget, she declared to the press. “Double 49.3 equals double motion of censure”, she launched, surrounded by elected officials from the left.

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  • Resignation of Liz Truss: who are the possible candidates for the post of British Prime Minister?

    Resignation of Liz Truss: who are the possible candidates for the post of British Prime Minister?

    In the United Kingdom, the future head of government will be appointed by October 28, following an internal Conservative Party election.

    Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, at the time respectively British Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, March 24, 2022. (EVAN VUCCI / AFP)

    The war of succession is open. After the resignation of the British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, Thursday, October 20, an internal ballot in the conservative party, which must be completed by Friday, October 28, must make it possible to designate the future head of government across the Channel. Here are the possible candidates for the succession of the ephemeral conservative leader.

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