Did you miss the news this early morning? We’ve put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.
What happened to Yevgeny Prigozhin? Wagner’s chief, his deputy and eight other passengers were presumed dead in the crash of a private plane northwest of Moscow on Wednesday, according to the Russian Air Transport Agency and a ministry. If it is not known immediately whether it is an accident or revenge, the information in any case “not surprised” Joe Biden. According to the American president, “little thing happens in Russia without Putin having something to do with it”.
Emmanuel Macron announced the return to politics on Wednesday. For the occasion, the Head of State has chosen to put school, but also immigration, at the top of his priorities. In an interview at Point, the president notably advocates “significantly reducing immigration, starting with illegal immigration”. “Are we overwhelmed by immigration? No. It is wrong to say that. That said, the situation we know is not tenable, ”considers the tenant of the Elysée. He therefore announces that the government will resume “at the start of the school year” its bill on the subject, which has been postponed several times for a year, without excluding “enriching the text” in Parliament.
Although very controversial, the measure was expected and announced. Japan began this Thursday the discharge into the Pacific Ocean of water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, according to video images on site broadcast live by Tepco, the operator of the plant. The water, treated and very diluted beforehand, would have been stripped of most of its radioactive substances, but not of tritium which is only dangerous in high concentrated doses.