The National Covid Memorial Wall in honor of the victims of the coronavirus in London, UK. – Frank Augstein / AP / SIPA
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It is a dark course for the Old Continent. The coronavirus pandemic “in full expansion” in the world according to the WHO, has killed more than a million people in Europe, according to a count carried out by AFP from reports provided by the health authorities. It is exactly a third of the world toll which approaches 3 million deaths. France, it should cross in the coming days the threshold of 100,000 deaths, while 385 people died on Monday and 5,900 people are in intensive care. “We are currently at a critical point in the pandemic,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical officer at the World Health Organization for the fight against Covid-19.
This is the equivalent of more than 400 Olympic swimming pools. Japan will discharge into the sea, after treatment, water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced Tuesday, despite opposition to the project. This decision puts an end to seven years of debates on how to get rid of water from rain, groundwater or injections needed to cool the cores of nuclear reactors that melted after the gigantic tsunami of March 11, 2011. Neighbors of Japan, with whom Tokyo maintains stormy relations amid historical disputes, also expressed their dissatisfaction, China having communicated Monday its “serious concerns”. Water cannot be rid of tritium, a radioactive isotope dangerous to human health in very high doses.
Calls for calm, curfews, National Guard soldiers: US authorities tighten security in Minneapolis to prevent the city from igniting after the death of a young African American gunned down by police in the midst of Derek’s trial Chauvin, on trial for the murder of George Floyd. Police released images of the intervention (be careful, they are shocking). And pleads for an “accidental discharge”. “I’m going to Taser you,” the policewoman warns first, but pulls out her pistol in the process. “I’m going to Taser you,” she repeats, before shouting, “Taser, Taser, Taser!” To announce a discharge. But she actually fires her gun once and then immediately shouts, “Oh shit, I shot him”.