Did you have better things to do than stay connected to the news this weekend? No problem, 20 minutes is here to provide you with a summary of the events that have marked recent days.
Violent storms hit the southwest of France
Saturday afternoon, violent storms hit the South-West, from the Basque Country to Poitou via Aquitaine. Météo-France had placed eight departments on orange alert for storms: Dordogne, Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Landes, Gironde, Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and Charente.
However, residents were surprised by the violence of the meteorological event, with 14,000 lightning strikes recorded, gusts of nearly 70 km/h which caused electrical outages or even hailstones, particularly on the town of Dax. This morning, 3,800 homes were still without electricity in the South-West, according to a new situation update from Enedis.
Sciences Po Paris in turmoil amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Sciences Po Paris undertook on Friday evening to organize an internal debate and to suspend disciplinary procedures launched against pro-Palestinian demonstrators who blocked the establishment. “Given these decisions, the students have undertaken to no longer disrupt classes, exams and all the activities of the institution,” announced Jean Bassères, provisional administrator.
The head of government Gabriel Attal deplored “the heartbreaking and shocking spectacle” of the blockage and partial occupation of the establishment. “There will never be a right to blockage, never any tolerance with the action of an active and dangerous minority which seeks to impose its rules on our students and our teachers,” he declared during a trip to Pirou (Manche). For his part, MEP LR François-Xavier Bellamy proposed an end to public funding at Sciences Po.
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Putin did not directly order Navalny’s death, US intelligence says
The CIA and other intelligence agencies believe that Vladimir Putin did not directly order the death of Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny in February, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Saturday. A conclusion received with caution by other Western intelligence services and contested by close allies of the deceased, indicates the daily. Russian opponent Leonid Volkov described the American approach to the WSJ as “naive”.
Those who say Vladimir Putin didn’t know “clearly don’t understand anything about how Russia works today,” he said. American agencies rely both on classified information and on the analysis of public elements to reach this conclusion.
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Biden mocks Trump at annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Joe Biden displayed self-deprecation on Saturday while trashing his US presidential rival Donald Trump as a “six-year-old” at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event that sparked a protest against the war in Gaza on its outskirts. On duty this year to laugh at the American president was comedian Colin Jost, author and actor for the flagship American television show “Saturday Night Live”, broadcast on NBC. His wife, actress Scarlett Johansson, was also present at the dinner on Saturday.
“I would like to point out that it is past 10 p.m., Sleepy Joe is still up, while Donald Trump spent the week falling asleep in court every morning,” said the comedian, in an allusion to the trial in New York from the former president for a case of hidden payments to a former porn actress.
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Véronique Sanson hospitalized with pneumonia cancels her last concert before the festival season
The 75-year-old singer Véronique Sanson was forced to cancel her concert planned for this evening in Nantes. She “suffers from pneumonia” and was hospitalized during the night from Saturday to Sunday, announced her press secretary. “The concert is postponed to Thursday May 30, tickets remain valid,” said the same source in a press release.
The singer, author and composer, successfully treated for amygdala cancer in 2018, is celebrating her 50th career with a tour which notably took her for three evenings to the Grand Rex in Paris, where she celebrated her 75th birthday. last Wednesday and where she must return in June. The concert in Nantes was to be the last in a series before the summer festivals.
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