Covid: the hunt for fake health passes intensifies

Procedures for forgery and use of fake health passes are increasing, according to Health Insurance, which reports 46 requisitions received since May, including 10 on Monday and Tuesday alone, as well as 30 complaints and reports filed by the social security funds. . Haro on false passes. The number of requisitions sent by the police to the Health Insurance is skyrocketing: from 1 in May to 8 in June, 17 in July, the first week of August and another 10 in the last two days. If there is indeed a "scam" with "false QR code" and identity theft, the Secu particularly targets fraudulent certificates, created "as if the person had been vaccinated, when they received no injection ".

Algeria: 69 dead in ongoing fires

At least 69 people have died in the fires that are ravaging northern Algeria. Dozens of fires fanned by the extreme heat and against which firefighters, soldiers and volunteers are desperately trying to fight. At least 28 soldiers and 37 civilians died in these fires which started Monday evening in Kabylie, in particular in the region of Tizi Ouzou, according to official reports. At the end of the afternoon, the official APS agency reported four other deaths, without saying whether they were civilians or soldiers. And 20 people were missing on Wednesday, according to the French-language news site Tout sur l'Algérie (TSA). The Algerian president has declared a three-day national mourning from Thursday. Impressive images, accompanied by calls for help, circulate on social networks, with charred trunks, dying cattle and besieged villages.

Russian Far East: Helicopter with tourists crashes into a lake

A helicopter with 16 people on board, including 13 tourists, crashed into a lake on the volcanic Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East on Thursday, with at least eight survivors. The Mi-8 helicopter crashed into Kuril Lake in the Kronotskiy Nature Reserve, the local government said in a statement. About 40 rescuers from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and divers were dispatched to the scene, according to the same source. The search and rescue operation continues. The local health ministry had previously reported nine survivors.

Morocco and Israel sign new cooperation agreements

The heads of Israeli and Moroccan diplomacy on Wednesday signed agreements relating in particular to political cooperation, aviation and culture, during the first visit to Morocco by a senior Israeli official, seven months after the normalization of relations between the two countries. The kingdom was the fourth Arab country – after the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan – to have normalized relations with Israel in 2020 under the leadership of the United States of Donald Trump, in return for American recognition of its "sovereignty" over the disputed territory of Western Sahara.

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