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Critics continue to rain down on the Football World Cup organized in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, 2022. As a result, the City of Paris has in turn announced that it will not install fan zones or giant screens in the public space to broadcast the meetings. The capital is far from being the only one to follow this line. Marseille, Bordeaux, Nancy and Reims have indeed joined the list of French cities on Monday refusing for humanitarian and environmental reasons to promote World Cup meetings, after Strasbourg, Lille or Rodez.
While the geopolitical situation is already very tense in the area, Pyongyang has chosen to increase the pressure even further. For the first time since August 2017, North Korea fired a ballistic missile that flew over northern Japan. The alert was lifted about twenty minutes later, when the missile crashed into the Pacific Ocean, east of the archipelago. Washington promised, after consultation with Tokyo and Seoul, a “robust” response. US National Security Advisor Jack Sullivan also said he wanted to reaffirm his country’s “ironclad commitment” to its Asian allies.
Unsurprisingly, the Iranian supreme guide sees in the current protest in his country the hand of Washington. For his first reaction to the demonstrations, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused, as usual, the sworn enemies of the regime in place in Tehran. According to him, Israel and the United States fomented the protest movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini on September 16. In response, the White House decided to raise its tone. President Joe Biden, “seriously concerned by reports of ever more violent repression”, said on Monday that the United States would impose “new sanctions on the perpetrators of violence” this week.