No time for the news and reading your favorite articles this weekend? Do not panic, 20 minutes has prepared his Sunday night cheat sheet for you.
1-Thomas Pesquet’s return from the International Space Station (ISS) delayed
Arrival on Earth slightly shifted. Thomas Pesquet was expected in Miami, on our planet, this Monday. Frenchman Thomas Pesquet and the three other crew members of Crew-2 were scheduled to leave the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday and land off Florida at midday on Monday, after spending more than six months in the ‘space.
But their departure was delayed. Thomas Pesquet and his colleagues should therefore leave Monday at the end of the day, and set foot on Earth Tuesday night, at 4:33 am (Paris time).
2-The Iraqi Prime Minister unharmed after an “assassination attempt” with a drone
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazimi escaped unscathed from an “assassination attempt” overnight from Saturday to Sunday using a drone bomb that targeted his residence in Baghdad. A new escalation in the security crisis that Iraq is going through. The United States immediately condemned an “apparent act of terrorism”. The attack, which has not been claimed, is the first to target the residence of Moustafa al-Kazimi, in power since May 2020. It comes at a time when political parties are leading negotiations to form parliamentary coalitions on the basis of the preliminary results of the legislative elections of October 10. These are “three drones” which were launched from an area located a little over a kilometer as the crow flies from the residence.
3-Prayer of repentance of the bishops of France in Lourdes for the victims of pedocriminality of the Church
Bishops, priests, heads of religious orders and a few faithful “remembered” the some 216,000 victims of pedocriminality identified in the French Church, Saturday in Lourdes, by meditating in front of a photo and by organizing a prayer of repentance. In a report in early October, a commission estimated that some 216,000 people over the age of 18 have been the subject of sexual violence since 1950, when they were minors, by clerics (priests or deacons) or religious in France. . The Sauvé commission also estimates the number of predators involved in 70 years at around 3,000. Pope Francis expressed “his shame”, calling “French Catholics to assume their responsibilities so that the Church is a safe home for all”.
4-Airlines prepare for surge of travelers in the United States
The airlines have put themselves in order of battle to welcome on Monday vaccinated travelers from 33 countries, authorized to return to the United States after eighteen months of border closures.
Air France, British Airways, United Airlines… To cope, the companies which usually depend heavily on transatlantic and transpacific routes have added flights, chosen larger planes, made sure to have enough staff. The White House’s announcement of the lifting of restrictions had been awaited for months by separated families, business travelers or ordinary tourists. Immediately, airline ticket reservations jumped. The flights of November 8, the date of the reopening, were stormed.
5-Return of Karine Le Marchand’s show Intimate ambition this sunday evening
“Your mom never knew how to read or write?” Do you mind being compared to your father? Are you very fond of board games? The questions which follow one another are not put to a farmer or a farmer of Love is in the meadow but to women politicians. Anne Hidalgo, Valérie Pécresse, Marine Le Pen, Rachida Dati and Marlène Schiappa have all agreed to participate in the second season ofAn intimate ambition, presented by Karin Le Marchand, whose one and only number will be broadcast this Sunday on M6.