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After yesterday marked by the passage of the “Gérard” depression, the sky will once again be unleashed this Tuesday over France. The whole of France is even on yellow alert. Above all, Météo-France has placed seventeen departments on orange alert while the “Fien” depression is now circulating in the south of the country. In particular, it causes heavy rains in the southwest and intermittent snowfalls in the Massif Central.
The most populous country in the world had not experienced such statistical data since the beginning of the 1960s: the Chinese population fell by around 850,000 people in 2022. In total, 9.56 million births were registered. last year and did not compensate for the 10.41 million deaths. This decline is explained in particular by the cost of living which has risen sharply, by the higher level of education of women which delays pregnancies or even by the lack of desire of the younger generations to have a child. The fertility rate has thus collapsed to 1.15 children per woman in 2021.
A major fire, which broke out Monday afternoon in an industrial building rented by Bolloré Logistics containing some 8,000 lithium batteries and located in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, was “contained” at 11:30 p.m., announced the prefecture . The situation is therefore under control, “at this stage, no particular risk has been identified”. The fire at this site, which is not Seveso classified, and which had been evacuated at the end of the afternoon, caused no injuries and did not generate any dangerous pollution.