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In the coming days, Pyongyang and Moscow will have the opportunity to further cement their relations. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un left Pyongyang by train on Sunday to go to Russia, where he is to meet “Comrade Putin”, the KCNA news agency announced on Tuesday. His train entered Russia, the Russian state press agency Ria Novosti reported a few hours later. Experts believe that this trip to Vladivostok, where an annual economic forum is held, could be about an arms deal. Vladimir Putin is reportedly seeking to obtain North Korean weapons and ammunition for Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. North Korea, for its part, would seek to obtain advanced technologies from Russia for its satellite and submarine program.
This is a statistic that undermines Emmanuel Macron’s promise of “a teacher in front of each class” at the start of the school year. A week later, there is an average shortage of “at least one teacher in 48% of middle and high schools”, according to a survey published Monday by Snes-FSU, the leading secondary education union. Data from academies “shows 500 positions remaining to be filled in secondary education, or 0.1% of positions”, for its part indicated Monday evening the Ministry of National Education. The Snes study “does not distinguish vacancies which are linked to unfilled positions from those linked to a one-off absence of teachers who were indeed assigned to their post but were absent at the start of the school year, for various reasons , for example illness,” he added, stressing that these absences were intended to be “resolved or replaced quickly”.
The race against time intensifies in Morocco, more than 72 hours after the earthquake. Volunteers and rescuers remain mobilized this Tuesday to try to find possible survivors. The epicenter of the earthquake which left 2,862 dead and 2,562 injured, according to a final report Monday evening, is located in a mountainous area of the High Atlas, where landslides have further made access to the affected villages difficult. On Sunday evening, Morocco announced that it had accepted offers from four countries to send search and rescue teams: Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. “In Turkey (hit by a very violent earthquake in February), we managed to find a woman alive after six and a half days. There is always hope,” said Spanish team leader Annika Coll.