The info not to be missed
Eye on the future.
Emmanuel Macron unveiled on Tuesday the priority sectors of the France 2030 plan, while confirming an investment of 30 billion euros over five years.
Among them, nuclear power - via small reactors -, green hydrogen, but also robotics, the seabed, agriculture and even medical research ...
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Surrounded by a dozen of his ministers, and facing business leaders, elected officials and young people, the Head of State also launched a call to reindustrialize the country, while stressing the need to decarbonize industries. already existing.
He also explained that France should, at the same time, "lead the battle for innovation".
Emmanuel Macron also spoke of the automotive market and his desire to see France engage in a transition to electricity.
What to also remember
Three deaths in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
At least three people were killed early this Tuesday morning, near the Saint-Jean-de-Luz station, after being struck by a TER train, which left Hendaye in the direction of Bordeaux. A fourth victim was in a state of absolute emergency. According to a police source, the four victims, all of Algerian origin, were lying on the tracks. The mayor of the town of Ciboure, where the accident took place, said the four people were migrants who would have "dozed off" on the rails.
The secrecy of confession is invited to the Ministry of the Interior.
The statement had caused controversy. The day after the publication of the Sauvé report on sexual abuse and child crime in the Church, Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, the president of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), considered that the secrecy of confession was " stronger than the laws of the Republic ”. He is invited to "explain his words" to the Ministry of the Interior, this Tuesday, where he will be received by Gerald Darmanin at the beginning of the afternoon. Last Friday, the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, recalled the legal framework for the secrecy of confession, affirming "the urgent need" for priests to alert on the facts of pedocriminality.
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The British government in failure in the face of Covid-19.
The report is simply overwhelming.
After months of hearings, two British parliamentary committees concluded on Tuesday that the government of Boris Johnson and his scientific advisers had made serious mistakes and accumulated significant delays in managing the start of the pandemic.
Among the faults pointed out, the “deliberate” choice to adopt a “gradual and progressive approach” instead of radical measures.
This is "one of the biggest public health failures the UK has ever known," the report even points out.
The unexpected info
It is a sign that American comics are adapting to society.
DC Comics, a subsidiary of Warner Bros, announced on Monday that the new Superman, son of Clark Kent, will fall in love with a man and assume his bisexuality in an album scheduled for release in November.
“I have always said that everyone needs heroes and has the right to represent themselves in these heroes,” explained comic book author Tom Taylor.
In detail, Jon Kent will fall in love with a journalist, named Jay Nakamura, whom he first met in an issue of Superman published in August.
The new Superman is not the only comic book hero to assume his bisexuality: it was already the case for Robin, Batman's sidekick, in the last edition of the comic book of the same name.
