We hope you were able to enjoy your weekend. We spent these two days checking the news. And it’s time to sum it all up.
1. COP27 opened in Egypt
The COP27 opened this Sunday in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to relaunch the fight against global warming. This 27th UN climate conference (COP27) will bring together some 200 countries for two weeks, at the bedside of a planet hit by disasters: historic floods in Pakistan, repeated heat waves in Europe, hurricanes, fires, droughts… The fight for the climate is a “question of life or death”, reminded the Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres. But are these conferences still of interest? Our lines of thought are in this article.
More info: Hundreds of environmental activists were arrested at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands on Saturday. They were arrested after occupying a parking area for private jets.
2. The RN has a new president
Jordan Bardella took the chair of Marine Le Pen at the head of the National Rally on Saturday. But not in serenity, while the deputy of Gironde Grégoire de Fournas received the heaviest sanction within the Assembly, after remarks deemed “racist” by all the other groups. Proof of the ambient malaise, the deputy Grégoire de Fournas was also absent from Congress this Saturday. Bardella was elected after a landslide victory (84.84%) against Louis Aliot. For the first time in fifty years, the president elected by the militants is not a direct member of the Le Pen family.
More info: The mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône) Hélène Geoffroy is seeking the post of first secretary of the PS and is directly opposed to Olivier Faure: “We are with an LFI-see direction”, she accuses this Sunday.
3. New tensions in Korea
The Korean peninsula remains under tension. A US B-1B supersonic heavy bomber joined joint air exercises with South Korea on Saturday. The Vigilant Storm air exercises, which started on October 31, are the largest ever. These were extended due to missile fire by North Korea. Pyongyang has launched four more short-range missiles towards the Yellow Sea, the South Korean military said on Saturday.
More info: The city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, occupied by the Russian army, was Sunday “without electricity or water” following a Ukrainian strike, announced the Russian occupation authorities of the eponymous region.
4. Singer Aaron Carter dies aged 34
He was the singer of the hit I Want Candy. Aaron Carter has died aged 34. He was reportedly found drowned in the bathtub at his home in Lancaster, California. Aaron Carter was also known to be the brother of Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter. His musical career began with the group Dead End, when he was 7 years old. At the beginning of the 2000’s, Aaron’s Party went triple platinum with 900,000 copies sold.
More info: Andy Taylor, ex-member of Duran Duran, has advanced prostate cancer. The announcement was made Saturday by the band members as they entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
5. The start of the Route du Rhum postponed to Wednesday
More than a hundred skippers were waiting to take the start of the Route du Rhum off Saint-Malo, but the weather led the organizers on Saturday to decide to postpone it. They should normally start Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. Many skippers had expressed their fears of seeing the start maintained on Sunday. Some of them had already announced that they would have come to take shelter just after the start if the latter had been kept on Sunday. The Route du Rhum has taken place every four years since 1978 from Saint-Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe.
More info: By beating Australia with difficulty on Saturday at the Stade de France (30-29), Fabien Galthié’s players improved on a record that dates back to the 1930s: 11 victories in a row.