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Faced with rising prices, the executive draws "a middle class allowance".
Jean Castex announced Thursday evening, at the 20 Hours of TF1, a simple measure "which is visible", to respond to concerns about the surge in fuels and purchasing power.
Rather than a check to motorists, a "gas plant" according to the Prime Minister, or a reduction in taxes - "it is not only gasoline" which is increasing - the government has chosen a third path: that of disburse 3.8 billion to grant aid to all French people who earn less than 2000 euros net per month, whether they have a car or not.
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The bonus of 100 euros - tax-exempt, Matignon said - will be paid in one go and automatically, from the end of December by employers to employees and between January and February for other categories, such as retirees, self-employed or apprentices, without the need for 'no action, said the Prime Minister.
This Friday morning, Gabriel Attal, specified that the
"Two thirds of French students"
are eligible for the measure.
The government spokesperson explained in particular that it is more precisely “scholarship students who are fiscally independent from their parents”.
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Alec Baldwin, author of a fatal shot.
The American actor shot and killed the director of photography on Thursday, presumably by accident, and injured the director of the western he was filming in the US state of New Mexico, local police said. Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza "were shot and wounded when Alec Baldwin unloaded a gun used in the filming" of the movie "Rust," the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Services said. Halyna Hutchins, 42, said was evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead by medics. The director of "Rust", Joel Souza, 48, has meanwhile been admitted to intensive care. We take stock of what we know about the drama.
"Small surge" of Covid-19 contaminations.
In France, and in Europe, "we are witnessing an increasing trend", "not an epidemic wave, a trend of moderate increase" in cases linked to Covid-19, presented the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on BFMTV and RMC. "It's cold outside, it's wetter, like all respiratory viruses" the Covid-19 "circulates more, we expected", he continued, referring to around "5000 cases per day" currently. A strong recovery of the virus is not "the most likely scenario" according to him. There is no “increase in hospitalizations like last fall because the population is massively vaccinated”.
SNCF strike.
One in three Atlantic TGVs will be canceled on Saturday and Sunday, and one in ten canceled this Friday. The call for a joint strike by CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots will affect the circulation of TGV Inoui and Ouigo on the TGV Atlantique axis. This call runs from Friday noon to Monday noon, ie the entire first weekend of All Saints holidays. Negotiations with the unions on wages and working conditions "have been carried out for several days" and "have not been able to find a favorable outcome at this stage", indicated the management.
Something new in the Gabby Petito affair.
The human remains found on a reservation in Florida on Wednesday match the boyfriend of the American traveler who was found dead last September.
The FBI has confirmed what the family of the young man, the number one suspect of the murder, missing for several weeks, feared since the day before and the discovery of personal effects belonging to him.
"A comparison of dental data confirmed that the human remains discovered" on the reserve "are those of Brian Laundrie," the FBI said in a statement.
The unexpected info
It's a first. An American court has recognized legal personality in animals. And not just any: the descendants of Pablo Escobar's hippos, which have multiplied in Colombia since the death of the famous drug trafficker thirty years ago. This recognition was granted as part of a legal battle to block their slaughter. Pablo Escobar, in his heyday, imported a few hippos to fill the zoo at his hacienda in Napoles, a hundred kilometers south of his stronghold in Medellín. After he was slaughtered in 1993, most of the other animals (flamingos, giraffes, zebras, kangaroos…) were sold, but not the pachyderms, which proliferated. Until becoming what is reputed to be the largest colony of these animals outside Africa.They have gradually become an environmental concern and a threat to the inhabitants.
