The news from the last 49 hours summarized in five points is here. And if you don’t know why “49”, then you’ve done well this weekend. All the more reason to read our recap.
1. “Desperate situation in Gaza”
Israel’s war against Hamas entered a new stage on Saturday. In the north of a Gaza Strip deprived of the Internet and means of communication from Friday to Sunday morning, violent fighting pitted Hamas fighters against Israeli ground forces. The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, expressed alarm on Sunday at an “increasingly desperate” situation on the ground, deploring that Israel had “intensified its military operations”. The United States, for its part, affirmed a little earlier that Israel must take all necessary measures to make a “distinction” in its military operations between Hamas and Palestinian civilians.
2. Matthew Perry is dead
His name was not known to everyone but the character he played during the ten years of the series Friends, had made his reputation throughout the world. Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing, died on Saturday. According to Los Angeles Times, the actor was found unconscious dead by his assistant in his jacuzzi at his home in Los Angeles. No clue suggesting that it could be a criminal act has been found according to the same sources. Throughout the day on Sunday, tributes multiplied, notably from Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister having worked with the actor during his childhood.
3. IVG soon included in the Constitution?
Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday a bill which will enshrine in the constitution the right for women to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion). In article 34 of the French Constitution, it will be added: “the law determines the conditions in which the freedom of a woman is exercised, which is guaranteed to her, to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy “. This registration will complicate any attempt by the legislator to remove this right or seriously undermine it. The text must be voted on by three-fifths of the two houses of parliament meeting in Congress.
4. The world champion Springboks
The Rugby World Cup is over. And the XV of France can console themselves by saying that they were eliminated by the world champions. South Africa, in fact, dominated New Zealand by one point in the final (12-11). We were there :
5. Ngannou comes very close to the feat
We end with a train arriving on time. As expected, Francis Ngannou lost his boxing fight this weekend against world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. But that’s pretty much the only thing that happened as planned in this meeting that was announced to be unbalanced between an undisputed champion of English boxing and his challenger, a star of mixed martial arts, who was competing in his first real fight. in this discipline. Fury went to the ground in the third round, stunned by Ngannou, but got up and finally won by referees’ decision (2 to 1). “He gave me probably my toughest fight in ten years,” admitted “Gipsy King” Tyson Fury.