The info not to be missed
Two years to the day after the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, went to the site on Thursday to observe the stages of its reconstruction.
In the company of the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, the Head of State returned for the first time to the scene of the tragedy.
He was able to talk to the staff who work on this gigantic site and praised “all the work that has been done in two years”.
"We also see what remains to be done," said Emmanuel Macron, however.
The president, however, maintains his goal promised in 2019 to complete the reconstruction work in 2024, as he explains exclusively in our columns.
In the Senate, the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, declared Wednesday that the funds raised during the national and international public financial subscription launched after the fire of the cathedral will be sufficient to rebuild it.
What to also remember
Macron consults mayors and ministers for an update on the health crisis.
This afternoon, the president is meeting by videoconference with fifteen mayors "representative of the territories and political sensitivities", in order to take stock of the health crisis affecting the country.
Following this meeting, he will also discuss with a dozen ministers to discuss the modalities of reopening places that have been closed to the public for months due to the pandemic.
France is expected to cross the 100,000 dead mark this Thursday as a result of Covid-19, while Guadeloupe has announced that it will advance from this Saturday until May 9 the time of the curfew, which will drop from 22 to 19 hours.
Little Mia always "actively" sought after.
Kidnapped Tuesday in the Vosges, 8-year-old Mia is still wanted by investigators from the national gendarmerie.
The public prosecutor of Epinal, Nicolas Heitz, declared that "very important means are committed to the service of this investigation".
"The investigations are underway, very active searches continue to find the little girl," he said.
The kidnapping alert was triggered a few hours before ceasing overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
France advises its nationals to leave Pakistan.
The French Embassy in Pakistan told its nationals that it was recommended to leave the country temporarily, "because of the serious threats to French interests".
Violent anti-French protests took place this week in Pakistan.
Clashes between the Pakistani police and thousands of supporters of a radical Islamist party, the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).
No "worries" to have on Iranian nuclear power.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday that there were no "concerns" to be had about Iran's nuclear program, which he said was "peaceful activities".
On Wednesday, London, Paris and Berlin had displayed their fears after the country's decision to enrich its uranium to 60%, against 20% currently.
"We are not trying to obtain the atomic bomb," said the Iranian head of state.
A statement that comes in the context of discussions around the 2015 Vienna agreement on Iranian nuclear power and a possible return of the United States to this agreement.
The unexpected info
In Poland, animal welfare inspectors were called by a Krakow resident about a mysterious animal hidden in a tree.
According to the Polish SPA, the person who gave the alert would have declared that "people do not open their windows because they are afraid that he will enter their home", before adding: "He is brown, he is posed in a tree ”.
After going there, the inspectors finally discovered that it was simply… a croissant!
Who would have thought that a pastry could be so scary?
