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Presidential 2022: Remote televised duel between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen
Ten minutes to convince voters… not to abstain in the first round. Presidential favorites Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen clashed remotely on Wednesday evening on TF1 when, according to polls, the gap between the two is shrinking, each insisting on the purchasing power of French.
The outgoing president and then his far-right rival spoke one after the other on TF1’s 8:00 p.m. Ten minutes to convince. Asked what their first measure would be if they were elected on April 24, each mentioned the maintenance of purchasing power undermined by the war in Ukraine and the surge in energy prices in particular, as well as the inflation.
Registrations for Parcoursup: The deadline for completing your wishes postponed to Friday due to a computer bug
In question, a computer problem. The Parcoursup site “is accessible again”, indicated the national platform for admission to the first year of higher education training, early Wednesday evening.
“To allow you to complete your file and confirm your wishes, you have an additional period of twenty-four hours: the deadline has been postponed to Friday 8 April. We thank you for your understanding,” the message adds. posted on Twitter.
Trial of one of Daesh’s “Beatles”: At the helm, ex-hostage Nicolas Hénin recounts the “sadistic” humor of his torturers
Daesh’s cruel “Beatles” found it funny to sing a macabre parody of the hit Hotel California to their “terrified” hostages, Frenchman Nicolas Hénin told an American court on Wednesday. The former war reporter, turned consultant, is part of a group of 27 Western journalists and humanitarians kidnapped in Syria by Daesh between 2012 and 2015, ten of whom were executed.
He testified on Wednesday on the sixth day of the trial of El Shafee el-Sheikh, a 33-year-old man accused of being part of a group of jihadists nicknamed “The Beatles” by their hostages because of their British accent. In December, “they forced us to sing a parody of Hotel California, which became Hotel Oussama in reference to bin Laden”. “It was basically: welcome to the Hotel Osama, which you will never leave, and if you try you will be killed in the style of Mr. Bigley”, a British engineer beheaded in Iraq in 2004.