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Bis repetita for the heat wave. For the second time in a month, France is experiencing an episode of very hot weather. Seven departments are placed on heat wave orange vigilance and twenty-four remain on yellow vigilance. According to Météo-France, this is an illustration of climate change which will cause summers “increasingly hot, where 35 degrees will be the norm”. The very strong increase in mercury also has dramatic consequences on the forest fire front. Two fires have been underway since Tuesday afternoon in Gironde and have already burned nearly 1,000 hectares. At the end of the evening, the plume of smoke was visible from the agglomeration of Bordeaux.
This is a first green light for the health bill aimed at combating the Covid-19 pandemic. The National Assembly voted in favor of the text, however amputated a key article on the possible return of the health pass for “extra-hexagonal” trips. Examined at first reading at the Palais-Bourbon, the bill was adopted by 221 votes against 187 during the final vote on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. He must now go to the Senate.
Now might not be the best time to offer Elon Musk to watch The birds, the Alfred Hitchcock classic. Much like Melanie Daniels, played in the 1963 film by Tippi Hedren, the Tesla boss is under the counterattack of a bird, more specifically a blue bird. Twitter indeed seized American justice on Tuesday to force Elon Musk to buy it back according to the terms agreed at the end of April, which valued the Californian group at 44 billion dollars. A judge from a court specializing in business law, in the State of Delaware, will therefore have to determine whether or not the multi-billionaire can terminate the acquisition agreement free of charge. The latter provides for severance pay of one billion dollars, which Elon Musk does not seem to want to settle, as it stands.