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Appointed Thursday at the head of the Ministry of National Education, Gabriel Attal, 34, continues a remarkable rise: if he remains the youngest of the government, this young shoot of Macronie has established itself as a must of the executive. Now boss of the “mammoth” – he is the youngest under the Fifth Republic to take care of this first state budget – where he succeeds Pap Ndiaye, Gabriel Attal will have to face many challenges: teacher recruitment crisis, school harassment and controversies over secularism.
He has already had to defend his young age and his passage in an ultra-elitist private school. “You can be 34 years old and have heavy responsibilities. One in three teachers is under 40,” he said. “Yes I went to private school. I don’t have to deny and apologize,” he added, calling not to “criticize parents who make this choice.”
July 2023 will likely be the hottest in “hundreds, if not thousands of years” across the globe, NASA’s chief climatologist said Thursday. Several heat records have already been shattered in July, according to two tools from the European Union and the University of Maine in the United States, which combine ground and satellite data to create models generating preliminary estimates.
On Wednesday, the European observatory Copernicus had already warned that the world was on the way to experiencing its hottest month of July since the start of measurements, after an already record month of June.
After a minute’s silence for the victims of the Auckland shooting, sport resumed on Thursday. In fifteen games, New Zealand had never won a World Cup match, it is now done. The Ferns created a surprise by dominating Norway (1-0). In Sydney, pushed by the Accor Stadium filled with 75,784 supporters, the Australians gritted their teeth to get the three points against Ireland (1-0), with a goal scored from the penalty spot.
On the program for this Friday, three matches: Nigeria-Canada (0-0), Philippines-Switzerland and Spain-Costa Rica (9:30 am on France 2).