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Some 75,000 households were without electricity on Monday morning, in the West and in the Center, in particular in Normandy, Brittany and the Pays de la Loire, after the passage of the winter storm Gérard.
14 departments are on alert and several are experiencing power cuts and disruptions to the rail network in Ile-de-France.
The depression named Gérard is a "classic winter storm for the season, but requiring special monitoring", notes Météo France.
Scheduled "in loss of intensity" in the afternoon of Monday, it must circulate "until the beginning of the afternoon from Normandy to the south of Île-de-France and the north of Center- Val-de-Loire then the far west of the Grand-Est and Bourgogne-Franche Comté regions”.
On the coast, some 158 km/h of wind was recorded at the Pointe du Raz in Finistère, a record for this station, as well as 148 km/h on the island of Groix (Morbihan), 145 km/h at Barneville (Manche), 135 km / h in Ouessant (Finistère), 125 km / h in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), 122 km / h in La Hague (Manche), indicated Météo France.
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Russia will “burn” Western tanks delivered to Ukraine.
The Kremlin swears to “burn” the tanks that Westerners, notably London and Warsaw, intend to deliver to Ukraine.
“These tanks are burning and will burn,” Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidency, said in his daily telephone briefing to the press.
The UK announced on Saturday that it will deliver 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine "in the coming weeks" - the first country to supply Western-built heavy tanks to kyiv.
A 16-year-old teenager killed in Val-de-Marne.
The miner was stabbed to death during a brawl between gangs in front of the Guillaume-Appolinaire high school in Thiais on Monday morning.
Another was stabbed in the thigh in the fight, his life would not be in danger.
Another 16-year-old boy was arrested, according to a police source.
Italy's most wanted mobster arrested.
Matteo Messina Denaro, on the run for 30 years, has been arrested in Palermo, Sicily, announced Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
He is considered the successor of the great historical leaders of Cosa Nostra, Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, who died in prison in 2016 and 2017. For many years hundreds of police and carabinieri participated in the hunt for the most famous fugitive in Italy .
Towards a “massive” January 19?
The secretary general of the CFDT Laurent Berger called for January 19, the day of strikes and demonstrations, to be "massive" in the country, adding that he had felt a "rise in discontent" for a week.
“The oil CFDT has not called for the refineries to be blocked for the moment”, he however recalled.
PSG fall in Rennes.
PSG suffered Sunday in Rennes (1-0) their second defeat of the season in the league, but especially the second in their last three Ligue 1 games, Sunday at the end of the 19th day.
"I'm not worried, we don't like to lose, but we will work," promises Portuguese midfielder Vitinha.
it concerns you
The fuel allowance of 100 euros is available from this Monday until February 28 for 10 million tax households, via a form on the tax site, and replaces the rebate on prices at the pump in force until at the end of 2022. This allowance is an aid paid in one go, for 2023, which concerns households with a reference tax income of less than 14,700 euros in 2021.
