PHILONISE FLOYD George Floyd’s brother made a vibrant appeal to the United States Congress on Wednesday, pleading with elected officials to “end the suffering” of African Americans and adopt significant police force reforms. Heard by the judicial commission of the House of Representatives, majority Democrat, he explained very moved “not being able to describe the … Read more
CHILDHOOD The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to lead to a global increase in child labor for the first time in twenty years, with millions more forced to work, the UN warned on Friday. According to a joint study by the United Nations Children’s Organization (Unicef) and the International Labor Organization (ILO), the number of working … Read more
By Le Figaro with Reuters Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will be starting campaign rallies shortly, as polls show his popularity declining after his criticized management of the coronavirus epidemic and the protests in the country that followed. death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Speaking to reporters at the White House, the US … Read more
No recovery for DELE ALLI Tottenham’s English international striker Dele Alli will be suspended from the Spurs resumption game against Manchester United on June 19 due to an Internet joke implying that Asians were responsible for the match. Covid-19 epidemic. In early February, before the pandemic came to interrupt the football season, Alli had published … Read more
The situation has improved in the Haut-Rhin, one of the main outbreaks of Covid-19 in France. By Le Figaro with AFP –The military field hospital installed in Mulhouse. PATRICK HERTZOG / AFP The army field hospital installed on a parking lot of the Mulhouse civil hospital to help it cope with the influx of patients … Read more
Did the victim George Floyd and the executioner Derek Chauvin know each other before the deadly arrest on May 25? This is an intimate question that raises many questions as the world cries, and revolts, after the death of this 46-year-old African-American, killed on May 25 in Minneapolis by a white police officer and buried … Read more
POLITICAL ACCENTS Between tears, slogans: the funeral of George Floyd, yesterday in Houston (Texas), mixed tributes and fiery calls to attack, finally, the racism that “hurts the soul” of America. From family to pastors, President Donald Trump was manhandled several times during this funeral organized in the Fountain of Praise church in the Texas city … Read more
Protect yourself, and twice more than once. While the epidemic of coronavirus still raging at United States, where the country knows the toll of the death toll the most consequent, the health authorities redouble of prudence and advice to avoid in everything taken a resumption in force of the contaminations. Sometimes at New York for … Read more
AUSTRIA Austria will reopen on June 16 its border with Italy, closed since March to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, the government has announced, which will also lift controls with most other countries in the EU, but not Sweden and Spain. “Yes, we are opening the border. Yes, traveling to Italy, Greece, Croatia … Read more
By Le Figaro with Reuters The number of new deaths related to COVID-19 rose to 71 in Italy, against 79 the day before, announced Wednesday the civil protection agency which recorded 202 new contaminations in 24 hours against 283 the day before. According to the agency, since the epidemic was reported on February 21, it … Read more