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Three departments were placed in orange vigilance this Thursday morning by Météo France: The Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in rain-flood vigilance, but above all all of Corsica, hard hit by violent storms.
According to a provisional report from the prefecture of Corse-du-Sud, three people died: a 13-year-old girl and a 72-year-old woman in a campsite in Balagne.
The third victim, a young woman of 20, in the municipality of Vico.
And 12 injuries are to be deplored, including one in absolute emergency.
According to the prefecture, the bad weather caused "significant damage" to material which makes traffic difficult in the north of the department.
Up to 80 mm of precipitation is expected in Corse-du-Sud throughout the day.
Wind gusts of up to 224 km/h are making the 70 ongoing rescue operations difficult.
According to EDF, 45,000 homes are without electricity in Corsica, mainly in the northwest of the island.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin will go there in the afternoon.
What you must remember
Russia says it has not deployed "heavy weapons" at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Since the end of July, Russia and Ukraine have rejected responsibility for several strikes that hit the nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, raising fears of a catastrophe.
“We emphasize that the Russian troops do not have heavy weapons in the compound of the plant and in the surrounding areas.
Only units providing security are there,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The Russian government also accuses kyiv of wanting to prepare "a resounding provocation" on the spot during the visit to Ukraine of the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres.
Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker 'surprised' the perpetrator survived.
The 75-year-old British author of “Satanic Verses” was stabbed ten times on Friday August 12 and evacuated by helicopter to a hospital.
His current condition is improving.
The suspect, arrested immediately after the attack, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on Saturday and is due to appear in court again on Friday.
"When I heard he survived, I was surprised," Hadi Matar told the New York Post.
Children's remains found in suitcase in New Zealand.
The two little ones who would be between five and ten years old rested in two identical suitcases, bought at auction, with a whole pile of loose objects, contained in a trailer, in a warehouse in Auckland.
The family of the victims is not linked to the death, but is "understandably shocked by the discovery" according to local authorities.
An investigation has been opened.
it concerns you
Anti-Covid vaccines pose little risk to pregnant women.
According to two studies published in two British medical journals, the immediate and also long-term risks for the period of gestation until delivery are low.
The first study, published last week in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, followed more than 5,000 vaccinated women during pregnancy and assessed the immediate risks of side effects in pregnant women after a messenger RNA vaccine.
The second study published Thursday in the British Medical Journal measures, in the longer term, the risks of childbirth, and concludes that there is no link between premature births and miscarriages, with any vaccine .
