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Concern is growing in Afghanistan.
While the Taliban had promised to be lenient and tolerant after their capture of Kabul, a confidential UN report says that the latter have "priority lists" of people they want to arrest.
The most at risk are those who held senior positions in the Afghan armed forces, police and intelligence units, according to the document.
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The UN report shows that they carry out "targeted door-to-door visits" to individuals they want to arrest as well as to members of their families. They also screen people wishing to access Kabul airport and have set up checkpoints in major cities. Taliban looking for a journalist working for Deutsche Welle (DW), and now based in Germany, shot dead a member of his family on Wednesday and seriously injured another, the German media reported.
Thursday, the day of the 102nd anniversary of the independence of Afghanistan, thousands of demonstrators converged in several places of Kabul as well as in Asadabad, in the east of the country, to denounce the arrival to power of the Taliban.
Some waved the black, red and green national flag, defying the Islamists who imposed their white and black flag on public buildings.
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Fire in the Var: the fire is fixed, but caution remains in order.
The prefect of Var Evence Richard declared that the fire, which has covered 8,100 hectares since Monday and burned 7,100 hectares of forest, was fixed, which means that its progression is stopped. "We must remain cautious," he said, however, the Maures forest area remaining at a very high risk of fire all day. The biggest fire of the year in France could see a resumption of fire on Friday, thanks to the changing winds expected during the day. On site, more than 1,000 firefighters were mobilized this Friday morning.
Fatal accident on the N2: call for witnesses.
The driver of a broken down van on the edge of the N2 was fatally wounded this Friday at dawn by an unidentified vehicle.
Its driver fled in the direction of the Oise.
The gendarmerie called for witnesses to find him.
Poitiers: Sacha Houlié's office burned down during the night.
"My permanence, this precious place where I welcome our fellow citizens in Poitiers, was this night voluntarily set on fire," tweeted the deputy LREM, adding that "this inadmissible act" did not affect "in any way (his) determination to act each time. day in the general interest in the service of the French ”.
An investigation is underway, announced the local prosecution, for which "no lead is ruled out".
Death of comic book writer Raoul Cauvin, father of the "Blue Tunics".
The Belgian screenwriter died Thursday at the age of 82.
He had become known with the series of comics "The Blue Tunics", which humorously recount the adventures of two American soldiers who fight the "Southerners" during the Civil War (1861-1865).
A success that pushed him to become a prolific author for his publisher Dupuis, collaborating with many other designers such as Berck (“Sammy and Lou”), Nic (“Spirou and Fantasio”) or even Kox (“L ' Agent 212 ”).
He was also the one behind the comic strip "Cédric" (Laudec), a success in children's comics with 34 albums to date.
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The thousand lives of "Little Nicolas"! Twelve years after having played the character of René Goscinny alongside Valérie Lemercier and Kad Merad, Maxime Godart is far from the life of a child star. Having become an autoentrepreneur in real estate, after appearing on the big and small screens, he shot his first short film in Lassigny, slated for a public release in 2023. “Le Petit Nicolas will follow me all my life, but it's thanks to this experience that I wanted to make cinema. He showed me my way, ”he tells us.