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The executive succeeds one another in Pas-de-Calais. After Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, it is the turn of Elisabeth Borne to come to the bedside of the victims of Pas-de-Calais. After more than ten days of exceptional bad weather, the Prime Minister, expected at 8:30 a.m., must meet the security and emergency forces as well as residents of Montreuil-sur-Mer. She must then discuss with the mayors of the region. On site, the population is still on alert. According to Météo-France, the rains could indeed resume this Thursday with the arrival of a new depression, called Frederico. The department is still on orange flood alert, just like the North, Charente-Maritime and Vendée. Puy-de-Dôme is on orange alert for wind, with gusts expected at more than 100 km/h.
The leaders of the two greatest world powers speak again. Joe Biden and Xi Jinping reestablished a dialogue in California on Wednesday that had remained unresolved for a year. The two men spent a total of four hours together, between a meeting, a working lunch and even a short walk, enough to give the press an image of calm. However, the presidents of the United States and China have also noted differences that seem insurmountable, particularly on Taiwan.
While fears are high that the Middle East will flare up in the context of the war between Israel and Hamas, tension rose further on Wednesday between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Benjamin Netanyahu. Denouncing the cost in human lives of Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip to fight Hamas, the Turkish president described Israel as a “terrorist state”. “We curse the Israeli government, but we do not forget those who openly support these massacres and those who do everything possible to legitimize them,” he added, referring to the United States and other countries. Westerners who support the Jewish state. In Gaza, “we are facing a genocide,” he finally said. The Israeli Prime Minister reacted to these comments the same evening. Erdogan “calls Israel a terrorist state but in reality supports the terrorist state of Hamas. He himself bombed Turkish villages, even within Turkish borders. We will not accept any comments from him.”