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NATO will respond if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine, US President Joe Biden pledged for the first time on Thursday.
“We will respond if there is appeal.
The nature of the response will depend on the nature of this use,” he said after the NATO and G7 summits.
He will travel this Friday to Poland, in the city of Rzeszow, about 80 km from the border with Ukraine at war.
NATO will provide Ukraine with protective equipment against chemical, biological and nuclear threats, announced the Alliance's Secretary General.
Four new battlegroups will be deployed in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia to strengthen NATO's defenses on its eastern flank.
More than 100,000 American soldiers are currently present in Europe and more than 40,000 soldiers are under direct NATO command in the eastern part of the Alliance.
The UN General Assembly, bringing together 193 states, adopted Thursday by an overwhelming majority a new resolution which "demands" from Russia an "immediate" halt to its military offensive in Ukraine.
A “historic” but non-binding resolution.
140 voted in favor, 38 abstained and five voted against, including Russia, Syria and North Korea.
What else to remember
Funeral of Yvan Colonna.
In Corsica, the village of Cargèse will bury the independence activist Yvan Colonna, a native of the country, on Friday afternoon, fatally attacked by a fellow prisoner while serving his sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
Arrived from Marseille on Wednesday evening, the coffin, welcomed by a guard of honor in Ajaccio, must leave the funeral parlor on Friday noon to join the Colonna family stronghold.
A crowd of residents and supporters of the Corsican independence movement are expected to pay their last respects.
Loïk Le Priol handed over to the French authorities.
The main suspect in the death in Paris of ex-rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu will be handed over by Hungary to the French authorities "within ten days", the Budapest court announced on Friday.
The 27-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening at the Zahony border post as part of a European arrest warrant, as he was preparing to travel to Ukraine.
More than 48 million voters.
48.8 million people are registered on the French electoral lists (excluding New Caledonia), says INSEE.
This means that 95% of French people of voting age are registered, adds the institute, which notes that their number increased by 856,000 between May 2021 and March 2022. 1.4 million of these registered residents live outside France.
Covid cases are increasing at school.
The Ministry of National Education reports 3,080 classes closed due to Covid, against 3,184 a week earlier.
A figure in slight decline, when the cases of Covid, them, increase.
The ministry lists 81,424 positive students against 52,669 last week.
it concerns you
Will we have to pay more for our poultry?
Most likely.
Avian flu has forced the slaughter of 10 million poultry since the discovery of the first outbreak at the end of November.
The fire is not extinguished and the virus continues to spread in the country, in particular in the Pays de la Loire where most of the breeding farms are concentrated.
The consumer should quickly see the consequences in the supermarkets on the prices, even on the availability of certain products.