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The floods caused tragedy in Loire-Atlantique. A 73-year-old man was discovered dead in his partially submerged car on Wednesday afternoon, after apparently turning onto a road closed to traffic due to flooding, the Nantes prosecutor’s office announced. His body was discovered by police divers.
Floods continue to cause concern in the north of the country, while Pas-de-Calais, still on red flood alert, is facing new floods.
The head of American diplomacy is embarking this Thursday on a new tour of the Middle East, in the hope of avoiding an expansion of the war in Gaza after the elimination of Hamas number two in Lebanon and the deadly explosions in Iran.
The American Secretary of State will leave Washington this Thursday evening for this new diplomatic shuttle in the region, the fourth since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, with a stop planned on Israeli soil, an American official said Wednesday evening.
After years of waiting, nearly 1,000 pages of legal documents linked to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in prison in August 2019, and to his ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell, sentenced to twenty years in prison for sex trafficking minors, were made public on Wednesday.
While it does not offer any new shattering revelations, the file includes nearly 180 names of contacts, acquaintances, relatives, alleged accomplices or victims of Epstein, who had sometimes been mentioned in the media – who had been able to obtain documents from the file – but whose anonymity had been preserved by the courts.