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A week after the annexation referendums by Moscow in four regions, the European Union agreed on Wednesday on a new series of sanctions against Russia.
The agreement was concluded at the level of the ambassadors of the Twenty-Seven.
The names and entities targeted by these new sanctions are to be published in the EU's Official Journal on Thursday, diplomats said.
These sanctions come as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed this Wednesday the law of annexation of four Ukrainian regions and the decrees formally appointing at their head the leaders that Moscow had already put in place.
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The texts signed by the Russian leader stipulate that the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia are accepted "into the Russian Federation".
At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Tuesday evening "powerful" advances by his army in southern Ukraine, referring to "dozens" of localities taken over.
In passing, he also thanked his counterpart Joe Biden for the “continuous military and financial support” of the United States in the face of the Russian invasion during a telephone conversation.
What else to remember
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to three researchers.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm rewarded this Wednesday the work of the Americans Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless and the Dane Morten Meldal.
American Barry Sharpless thus becomes the fifth person to win two Nobel Prizes.
This prize was the last unknown of the Nobel scientists before the highly anticipated awards for literature on Thursday and peace on Friday, then the most recent economics prize on Monday.
Richard Ferrand saved by prescription?
The Court of Cassation rules this Wednesday on the case of the Mutuelles de Bretagne which is worth to Richard Ferrand, former macronist deputy and ex-president of the National Assembly to be indicted since 2019. It must say if the facts referred to , dating back to 2011 but revealed in 2017, are prescribed or not.
The La Villette camp evacuated.
Police officers dismantled this Wednesday the Forceval camp, in the 19th arrondissement where consumers had been gathering for more than a year.
The operation was almost completed by mid-morning.
Only rare drug addicts were visible in the surrounding streets.
They should stay there for several days to prevent the camp from reforming.
The passenger of a car killed by the police in Grenoble.
During the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the passenger of a car chased by the police was killed by police fire in Grenoble.
The 18-year-old woman was fatally shot in the neck.
A chase ensued between the car and the police after the driver, who had committed traffic offences, refused to be checked.
Actresses cut their hair in support of Iranian women.
Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Angèle or even Charlotte Gainsbourg, Isabelle Adjani filmed themselves in a video broadcast this Wednesday cutting their hair in support of Iranian women, who have been demonstrating for two weeks despite the repression.
The information that concerns you
Christmas is already getting ready... The sale of tickets for the fifteen days of Christmas holidays opened on Wednesday: 9 million TGV, Ouigo and Intercités tickets are available, from 6 a.m., for the period from Sunday December 11 to January 2.
This is a million more than at Christmas 2021. As the trains fill up, the prices of the last places will logically increase, especially as the fateful date approaches.