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A million deaths from Covid, Trump and Charlie ... the information to remember this Monday noon

2020-09-28T10:29:39.180Z


Here is what you need to know about the news at midday on September 28.The info you shouldn't miss The course is symbolic. Nine months after the novel coronavirus was detected in China, the ensuing global pandemic killed one million people. Latin America, Europe and the United States are the most affected to date and the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that this number will most likely double. Despite the containment of part of the globe, more than 32.9 m


The info you shouldn't miss

The course is symbolic.

Nine months after the novel coronavirus was detected in China, the ensuing global pandemic killed one million people.

Latin America, Europe and the United States are the most affected to date and the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that this number will most likely double.

Despite the containment of part of the globe, more than 32.9 million cases have been officially diagnosed since the start of the epidemic, of which at least 22.5 million are now considered cured.

What to also remember

  • Faced with the spread of the coronavirus, restaurants and bars in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille are closed from today for 15 days.

    A decision criticized by the operators who demonstrated this morning in Marseille by blocking the Prado Carénage tunnel in both directions at the entrance to the city.

  • Is the main suspect in the attack which left two injured on Friday outside the former Charlie Hebdo premises the one he says?

    Investigators wonder about his real identity.

    The man, currently in custody, has so far introduced himself as Hassan A., an 18-year-old Pakistani.

    But searches in his cell phone allowed investigators to discover the photo of an identity document.

    On it, he would actually be called "Zaheer Hassan Mehmood" and would be 25 years old, these sources told AFP, confirming information from Le Monde.

  • According to an investigation by the newspaper published Sunday, Trump paid only $ 750 in federal taxes in 2016, the year he was elected president, as well as in 2017. In the United States, for decades, Presidents have a habit of publishing their tax returns.

    Candidate for his re-election next November, Donald Trump has always refused to comply with this exercise.

    There were, it seems, good reasons to explain this choice ...

  • After the cinema, music is also concerned with a phenomenon of free speech of victims of harassment or sexual assault.

    In recent weeks alone, at least four sites and social media accounts have appeared on the web to collect testimonials.

    A decryption to read here.

The unexpected info

The beautiful story of the day comes to us from the small village of Deveselu, in Romania: the outgoing mayor Ion Aliman was triumphantly re-elected there yesterday, two weeks after ... his death from the coronavirus.

After the polls closed, the villagers came to his grave to celebrate his victory.

The small village, which hosts an American military site, had already made headlines in 2016, when a breeder, whose sheep regularly triggered the base's warning systems, had been ordered by the American anti-missile shield command to do so. to graze his animals elsewhere.

Source: leparis

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