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Violence broke out Thursday in Guadeloupe where a gendarme was injured by live ammunition in Pointe-à-Pitre and six people arrested, we learned from the gendarmerie and the police. The vital prognosis of the gendarme is not engaged and an investigation has been opened, according to the police source. The public prosecutor is to hold a press conference on Friday. A week ago, the LKP, a collective of organizations mobilized against compulsory vaccination, called on the whole island to join a “dead island” day and to “mobilize everywhere, in the streets and in front of companies. In the center of the island, demonstrations “unauthorized” according to the prefecture degenerated during operations to maintain order in the town of Abymes, according to the same source which specifies that “the police were attacked by various projectiles, stones, molotov cocktails, bolts”.
Russia, which has massed thousands of soldiers on the Ukrainian border, is taking the risk of reviving the specter of the Cold War, the United States warned on Thursday. In the wake of controversial remarks by Joe Biden, Washington is threatening Moscow with retaliation in the event of an incursion, while US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Friday to try to find a diplomatic way out of crisis. Playing firmness, Antony Blinken judged that the possible entry of Russian soldiers would constitute “a very clear aggression by Ukraine” and this “it does not matter whether it is a single or a thousand soldiers” , the day after controversial remarks by Joe Biden.
Air hole for Netflix. The streaming leader ended 2021 with global successes like Squid Game Where Money Heist, but the audience records do not hide the slowing growth of new subscribers, which worries investors. The sanction was immediate on Wall Street: the action of the Californian group lost up to 20% during electronic trading after the close of trading. The streaming platform now has 221.8 million subscribers, slightly less than the 222 million it expected, according to its Q4 earnings release released Thursday. Above all, it only forecasts 2.5 million new subscribers for the current quarter, compared to the 4 million gained from January to March 2021. You have to go back to 2010 to find such a low figure for a first quarter,