The United States attests to Russian “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine, LR offers yet another drama, new twists in the Palmade affair… The news for this weekend of February 18 and 19

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The new version of the pension reform bill published before its arrival in the Senate. The highly contested pension reform continues its legislative path. After two weeks of a bitter battle in the National Assembly, it will be the turn of the senators to take charge of the bill, in committee on February 28, then in the hemicycle from March 2. The new version of the text was published this Sunday. It takes up almost all of what was examined in the National Assembly, even the parts that had been rejected by the deputies. This is explained by the legislative vehicle chosen to pass this reform. Our article.

At Les Républicains, number 2 Pradié ejected, the party again in a zone of turbulence. It won’t even take twelve hours. Aurélien Pradié was ejected on Saturday from his chair as vice-president of the Les Républicains party by its leader, Eric Ciotti, in the wake of the Assembly’s examination of the pension reform. The vase overflowed in the night from Friday to Saturday at the Palais-Bourbon, during the final feverish session of debates. “We are at the end of the Greek tragedy”, blew an LR frame without expecting such an outcome.

The Citizens’ Convention on the end of life says yes to active assistance in dying. A new step has just been taken towards the legalization of active assistance in dying. After two and a half months of work, the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life voted this Sunday on the main orientations of the opinion that it must submit in mid-March: 167 French representatives of civil society, estimated at an overwhelming majority (84%) that the “current end-of-life support framework” can’t answer “to the different situations encountered”. For 75% of contracted people, it is now a matter of legalizing access to active assistance in dying, assisted suicide or medically assisted euthanasia.

Pierre Palmade under investigation for possession of child pornography following a report. After that concerning the dramatic accident, the comedian is now targeted by an investigation for “possession of child pornography images», revealed BFMTV this Sunday. The Minors Protection Brigade will audition a man who made a report to the police, claiming to have videos and audios, in order to “verify the veracity of his accusations”. We also learned this Sunday that one of the passengers in Pierre Palmade’s car during the accident had been sentenced the previous week for drug trafficking to a ban on contact with the comedian.

Emmanuel Macron says he wants “the defeat” of Russia, but without “crushing” it. A new diplomatic balancing act. “I want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine and I want Ukraine to be able to defend its position, but I am convinced that in the end it will not be concluded militarily,” said Emmanuel Macron on Saturday evening, at the end of the Munich conference on international security. Before immediately qualifying: “I don’t think, like some, that Russia should be totally defeated, attacked on its soil. These observers want above all to crush Russia. This has never been the position of France and it never will be.

For the first time, the United States denounces Russian “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine. At the Munich Conference on International Security, US Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday cited summary executions, torture and rape committed by Vladimir Putin’s army, as well as the forcible transfer of Ukrainian civilians. “We have reviewed the evidence, we know the legal standards and there is no doubt that these are crimes against humanity”said number 2 Joe Biden.

North Korea fires its first missile of the year. Ahead of joint maneuvers between the United States and South Korea, Pyongyang launched an intercontinental missile on Saturday, which would have ended up in Japanese waters. This shooting was strongly condemned on Saturday by the international community. Military tensions have increased on the Korean Peninsula in 2022, a year in which Pyongyang has called a“irreversible” its status as a nuclear power and conducted a record series of weapons tests.

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Vitali Klitschko: “We are not only defending our country, we are defending each of you”. “On February 24, we started a day that still hasn’t ended.” A year after the start of the war, the mayor of Kyiv is a central figure in the Ukrainian resistance. In an exclusive interview with Releasehe says he believes more than ever in the victory of his country, the key to “peace and freedom in Europe”.

Michaël Zemmour, leading economist and thorn in the pension reform. The lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne multiplies media interventions to expose the impacts of the text and the lies of the government on its plan to raise the retirement age. Hailed by the left, he has become the joker of opponents of the reform. His profile.

Afghan refugees in Texas: “We will try to build our future and that of our children here”. For a little over a year, thousands of Afghans who fled their country with the arrival of the Taliban have settled in Houston. While some benefit from a special visa and the right to asylum, many others navigate between unskilled trades and help from NGOs. The report of our correspondent.

Closing of clothing brands: “The brands of the 80s remained in the race, but in the state of zombies”. For the journalist Jean-Laurent Cassely, author of “France under our eyes”, clothing brands such as Camaïeu, André or San Marina were doomed to wither because of their cultural gap with the new consumption patterns of society. current. His interview.