Your numb fingers couldn’t leaf through a newspaper: here’s a five-point summary of the news you missed this weekend of December 10 and 11.
France-Morocco in half
A powerful shot from Tchouameni, a successful penalty from Kane. A determined header from Giroud, a missed penalty from Kane. And here is France in the semi-finals (2-1) of the 2022 World Cup. Shortly before the victory of the Blues, it was their future opponents on Wednesday, the Moroccans who eliminated Ronaldo’s Portugal (1-0), who started what will undoubtedly be his last World Cup match on the bench and ended it in tears, like Neymar, another great eliminated from the quarters.
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A deputy speaker of parliament imprisoned
“This is a very serious attack on the reputation” of the European Parliament, said Sunday the European Commissioner for the Economy, Paolo Gentiloni. Six suspects were arrested on Friday in Belgium, including the Greek vice-president of the European Parliament Eva Kaili, the former Italian MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri and the general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) Luca Visentini, also Italian. They are suspected of having benefited from large sums of money offered by Qatar in return for their political support. Four of the six arrested were charged and imprisoned on Sunday, including Eva Kaili.
Committed Nobel Prize winners
By receiving the Nobel Peace Prize on Saturday in Oslo, the Ukrainian, Russian and Belarusian laureates called not to lay down their arms in the “crazy and criminal” war that Vladimir Putin launched in Ukraine. One of the three laureates, the president of Memorial, Ian Ratchinski, denounced the “imperial ambitions” inherited from the USSR which “still flourish today”. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has hijacked the historical meaning of the anti-fascist struggle “for the benefit of its own political interests”, he said.
For her part, the writer Annie Ernaux paid tribute to the giant of letters Albert Camus after receiving his Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, 65 years after the author of the stranger. “Finding myself here, 65 years later, leaves me with a deep sense of astonishment and gratitude,” declared Annie Ernaux to the 2,000 guests gathered at Stockholm City Hall.
Ciotti at the head of the Republicans
The deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes Eric Ciotti was elected Sunday president of the Republicans with 53.7% of the votes against 46.3% for his opponent Bruno Retailleau. Participation reached 69.70% in the second round against 72.67% in the first. Eric Ciotti, who had a nine-point lead over his opponent after the first round, succeeds Christian Jacob who resigned in June.
Lockerbie bombing suspect in custody
Thirty-four years after the Lockerbie bombing, a major suspect has been taken into custody by US authorities. The deadliest attack ever committed on the territory of the United Kingdom with 270 dead, the explosion of the Boeing 747 of Pan Am on December 21, 1988 above the Scottish village of Lockerbie, has given rise so far only to a conviction: the Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, who died in 2012. Abou Agila Mohammad Massoud, suspected of having assembled and programmed the bomb of the attack, must appear before a court in the District of Columbia, said the door -speech, without indication of date.