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He had become the thinking head of Al-Qaeda.
On Monday evening, US President Joe Biden announced the death of Ayman al-Zawahiri in a strike, while he was on the balcony of his house in Kabul, in the Sherpur district.
According to a senior American official, the family of the leader of the terrorist organization would have been spotted by the American secret services in 2022 in a house used as a cache in the Afghan capital.
The presence of Ayman al-Zawahiri in this house would then have been confirmed by these same searches a few months later.
"We have identified Zawahiri many times, and for long periods, on his balcony, where he was finally shot," a senior US official said Monday evening.
After months of shadowing and surveillance, an operation project is presented to the Democratic president in the “Situation Room”, an ultra-secure room of the White House, on July 1, in order to present a model of the house to the president. Biden.
After another briefing on July 25, the decision to hit al-Zawahiri's cache was taken Sunday morning at 6:18 a.m.
“The strike was ultimately carried out (…) by an unmanned aircraft.
Two Hellfire missiles (are fired at) Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is killed,” a senior US official said.
What else to remember
Paris and its inner suburbs are on drought alert.
After the placement of very many French departments in recent days, it is the turn of Paris and all the municipalities of Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne to switch to " drought vigilance” this Tuesday.
This vigilance, called "orange", is the first of the four levels of drought and does not provide restrictions but incentives to save water such as limiting the cleaning of cars, lanes, sidewalks or watering green spaces, as well as reducing water consumption at home.
China's warning to the United States regarding Taiwan.
In recent weeks, tension has been mounting between the United States and China over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory, while the democratic island claims to be autonomous.
In recent hours, China has issued a warning to the United States that Washington will bear the "responsibility" for a visit to Taiwan by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during her Asian tour and that they will have to in "paying the price".
"The United States will certainly be responsible (for the consequences) and will have to pay the price for their attack on China's sovereignty and security," Chinese diplomacy spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters.
The Senate adopts the abolition of the TV license fee.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, senators discussed the amending finance bill and the upper house adopted several key measures of the text intended to strengthen the purchasing power of the French.
Thus, after a long debate, the Senate voted in favor of the abolition of the TV license fee, with 196 votes for and 147 against.
Amounting to 138 euros in mainland France and 88 euros overseas this year, the fee brought in 3.2 billion euros out of the 3.8 billion paid to public broadcasting.
The Senate also perpetuated on Monday evening the increase to 7,500 euros in the tax exemption ceiling for overtime, voted by the National Assembly for 2022. On the other hand, it rejected the idea of a tax on “superprofits” or “benefits exceptional" of large groups.
Ukraine: the Dnipro region bombed overnight.
On the 160th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 41,170 Russian soldiers are said to have died since the start of the war on February 24, according to figures from the Ukrainian authorities.
While Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on residents of Donbass to leave the surrounding area due to relentless shelling by Russian forces, the Dnipro region is also not spared, with several strikes occurring overnight from Monday to Tuesday, damaging several buildings and cars.
In Mykolaiv, in the south of the country, three people died in an evacuation operation, the Russians having bombarded a minibus in which there were residents.
Finally, while the hope of a recovery in grain exports seemed to be reborn in recent days,
it concerns you
While the Covid-19 crisis has upset the habits of the French over the past two years, certain food certainties have remained anchored.
Thus, according to a study by the Nielsen IQ institute for the first half of 2022, the ten most consumed items in terms of turnover are ten drinks traditionally popular with the French, namely Ricard, Coca-Cola and whiskey, while bottles of mineral water are still enjoying some success, especially during this heat wave.
Excluding beverages, Nutella spread is the product most consumed by the French, ahead of Caprice des dieux, Président butter and Carte Noire coffee.
"Despite inflation, consumers want to continue to indulge themselves by buying their flagship products", explains Nicolas Léger, analytical director at NielsenIQ, before adding: "To reduce the bill, they have decided to plan their expenses outside (bars, restaurants, etc.) but not to touch these iconic products.
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