Sanitary pass: the French Parliament validates, vaccination is progressing

"In forceps" according to several elected officials, the health pass was definitively adopted on Sunday evening, deputies and senators having reached a compromise on this controversial text, the day after a new day of mobilization by its opponents. The National Assembly ended the parliamentary marathon started on Tuesday with a large vote, with 156 votes in favor, those of the majority and the right, 60 against, from the left and the RN and 14 abstentions. The leader of the LFI deputies Jean-Luc Mélenchon unsuccessfully defended a final motion of rejection, denouncing a "conditional freedom" with the anti-Covid pass, and inviting to "disobey".

Tunisia: the president grants himself executive power, Ennahdha denounces a "coup d'etat"

Tunisian President Kais Saied has decided to freeze the work of Parliament for 30 days and grant himself executive power, after a day of demonstrations, a decision described as a "coup d'etat" by the main party in power, Ennahdha. This twist shakes the young Tunisian democracy, which has been operating since the adoption in 2014 of a compromise Constitution according to a mixed parliamentary system, in which the president has the prerogatives of diplomacy and security. Tunisians, exasperated by power struggles and the government's contested handling of the social and health crisis, took to the streets despite the curfew, setting off fireworks and honking their horns enthusiastically in Tunis and several other cities.

Mali: the man suspected of having tried to kill the president dies in detention

The man accused of having attempted to assassinate the transitional president in Mali, Colonel Assimi Goïta, on July 20, and who had since been in the hands of the Malian security services, is "deceased", indicated Sunday evening the Malian government. "During the investigations (...), his state of health deteriorated. Admitted to the CHU Gabriel Touré, then to the Point G CHU (two hospitals in Bamako, editor's note), he unfortunately died", indicated the government in a statement read on public television ORTM. "An autopsy was immediately ordered to determine the cause of his death," the statement said. The assailant, whose identity has not been disclosed, rushed towards the strongman of Mali during the Eid al-Adha prayer in the Grand Mosque of Bamako and tried to strike him knife at the neck.

IN SHORT

Relations between the United States and China are "at an impasse" and Washington must stop "demonizing" Beijing, a Chinese leader said on Monday during the first visit to China by a senior Biden administration official. .

Algiers on Sunday condemned the decision of the African Union (AU) to grant Israel observer status at the pan-African organization.