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World News: From Macron’s Proposal for Corsica Autonomy to Flooding in New York and Greece

Exploit of RC Lens against Arsenal and sinking of PSG against Newcastle for their second match of the season in the Champions League, bad weather in New York and Greece… Every week, find all the news through the work of the photojournalists who travel the world. Thanks to the press agencies, always on the front line to cover major events, and to the journalists from the editorial staff of 20 Minutesfrom Lille to Marseille, via Bordeaux and Strasbourg, here is another look, in images, at the information from the last seven days.

Realization : Olivier JUSZCZAK

French President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony in tribute to the late French resistance fighter Fred Scamaroni at the Ajaccio citadel during a three-day trip to Corsica on September 28, 2023. — RAPHAEL LAFARGUE/POOL/SIPA

Emmanuel Macron proposed Thursday to Corsica “autonomy in the Republic”, warning that this “historic moment” will not take place “without” or “against” the French State.

In Goris, tens of thousands of refugees return to Armenia without hope of one day returning to Nagorno-Karabakh, on September 26, 2023. — PAUL DZA/SIPA

The European Parliament declared itself on Thursday in favor of “targeted” sanctions against Baku, denouncing in a text voted by a very large majority, an “ethnic cleansing” in Nagorno-Karabakh, after the Azerbaijani military intervention.

A man works cleaning up in floodwaters, Friday, September 29, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. — JAKE OFFENHARTZ/AP/SIPA

Flooded roads, canceled commuter trains, chaos in the subway: torrential rains in the northeast of the United States suddenly paralyzed the megacity of New York on Friday, putting its capacity to resist extreme weather to the test.

A man walks next to a buried car after flooding in the town of Agria, near the town of Volos, Greece, Thursday, September 28, 2023. — PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP/SIPA

The army, firefighters and civil protection were on Thursday on war footing to deal with the floods caused by torrential rains which hit central Greece again, three weeks after the deadly storm Daniel.

People gather at the site of a deadly fire, in Hamdaniya district, Nineveh province, Iraq, Thursday, September 28, 2023. — HADI MIZBAN/AP/SIPA

Pain and anger dominated Thursday in the small town of Qaraqosh, still reeling from a fire that devastated a wedding in northern Iraq, with the Prime Minister calling for “maximum penalties” against those responsible for the tragedy. . The fire which ravaged a village hall in Qaraqosh – also known as Hamdaniyah – on Tuesday evening left around a hundred dead and 150 injured, according to a still provisional report. Some 900 guests were in this building which did not meet security standards, according to the Interior Ministry.

Former President Donald Trump, center, sits in the courtroom of the New York Supreme Court, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, in New York. — SETH WENIG/AP/SIPA

Donald Trump left his civil trial on Wednesday for fraud on the value of his real estate assets, drawing taunts from the Attorney General of the State of New York, Letitia James, who assured that she would not be intimidated by the former president of the United States. “Mr. Trump is no longer here. The Donald Trump show is over. It was nothing other than a political stunt, a fundraising operation,” said Ms. James, convinced that “justice will prevail” at the end of this trial that she triggered by bringing complaint.

On October 3, 2023, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron presided over a national tribute to Hélène Carrère d’Encausse in the courtyard of Les Invalides in Paris. — ONE HARSIN/KICK

Emmanuel Macron paid a final national tribute on Tuesday to the historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, who died in early August at the age of 94, evoking her “credo” on “the European character of Russia’s destiny”, “sacrificed » by Vladimir Putin. The “nation bows” before “the little girl of the steppes and the mother of the Coupole”, “the stateless person and the matriarch”, “the orphan and the tsarina”, launched the Head of State at Les Invalides by saluting the memory of the first woman to have been at the head of the French Academy.

President Emmanuel Macron holds a speed radar, Monday October 2, 2023, in Villeton, southwest of France. — BOB EDME/AP/SIPA

Emmanuel Macron unveiled on Monday in Lot-et-Garonne the map of the 238 new gendarmerie brigades, more than the 200 promised before his re-election, most of which will be new mobile trucks to “redeploy on the ground” in the areas rural or peri-urban.

Kendall Jenner wears a creation for the L’Oréal Spring/Summer 2024 women’s fashion collection presented on Sunday October 1, 2023 in Paris. — VIANNEY LE CAER/AP/SIPA

After New York, London and Milan, Fashion Week started on Monday September 25 in Paris with shows tinged with humor, on a first day traditionally dedicated to young creation. It ended on Tuesday October 3 after a flood of people in the capital.

Speech by Emmanuel Macron on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the 1958 Constitution, to the Constitutional Council, in Paris, Wednesday October 4, 2023. — JEANNE ACCORSINI/SIPA

Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday that he wanted to bring “to completion” the broadening of the scope of the referendum to subjects such as immigration, and to open a “new stage of decentralization”, without upsetting the spirit of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, which is celebrating its 65th anniversary. He defended at length the text promulgated on October 4, 1958, in the midst of a regime crisis linked to the Algerian War, under the leadership of General de Gaulle.

Newcastle United midfielder Miguel Almiron celebrates scoring the first goal during the UEFA Champions League Group F football match between Newcastle United and Paris Saint-Germain at St James’ Park in Newcastle upon- Tyne, in the north-east of England, October 4, 2023. — FRANCK FIFE/AFP

Overwhelmed, Paris SG suffered the law of Newcastle and an erupting Saint James Park on Wednesday for the second day of the Champions League (4-1), a brutal challenge which made it lose first place in the difficult group f.

RC Lens supporters during the Champions League match against Arsenal, at the Bollaert stadium, October 3, 2023. — DAVID WINTER/SHUTTERSTOCK/SIPA

A fiery atmosphere and a major feat: against all expectations, Lens defeated Arsenal (2-1) on Tuesday, celebrating with a success its first Champions League match at the Stade Bollaert in twenty-one years. This victory against the favorite of Pool B places the Sang et Or alone in the lead ahead of the Londoners and Sevilla FC joined on the wire by PSV Eindhoven (2-2).

French scrum half Antoine Dupont attends a training session at the Groupama stadium in Décines-Charpieu, October 4, 2023. — MOURAD ALLILI/SIPA

Unsurprisingly, Maxime Lucu will have the heavy responsibility of replacing Antoine Dupont as scrum-half of the French XV, still too fresh after his jaw operation, Friday against Italy in Lyon, a decisive match for a place in the quarter-finals. final of the 2023 World Cup. The captain of the XV of France Antoine Dupont will have “a visit on Monday with his surgeon”, an essential prerequisite for a return to full training and his participation in a possible quarter-final of the World Cup, the management of the Blues announced on Tuesday.

Jean-Pierre Elkabbach in the Senate, January 21, 2004, in Paris. — BENAROCH/SIPA

Political journalist Jean-Pierre Elkabbach died on Tuesday October 3, at the age of 86. His pugnacious style, at the risk of irritating, which could also be kind to some, left its mark on generations.


2023-10-05 15:37:17
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