Covid-19: concern rises before the start of the school year

Two weeks before the start of the school year, the high contagiousness of the Delta variant prompted scientists to call on Thursday for more effective actions to avoid an outbreak of the virus in schools, even if vaccination of children under 12 is currently excluded. In a forum in Le Monde, around thirty doctors, researchers and teachers plead for "firm action" and "effective measures from the start of the school year" on September 2, without addressing the subject of vaccination. In Guadeloupe and Martinique, the epidemic is blazing. The French Navy's Dumont d'Urville ship arrived overnight from Wednesday to Thursday in Martinique with more than 100 tonnes of medical oxygen.

Washington, no bomb in the vehicle of the suspect who threatened the Capitol

No bomb was discovered in the vehicle of an individual who had threatened for long hours to set off an explosive device near the Capitol in Washington, already the target this year of the violent assault led by pro-Trump demonstrators and a deadly car-ramming attack. The 49-year-old suspect surrendered on his own in the early afternoon after tense negotiations with police, who identified him as Floyd Ray Roseberry. This white man with a shaved head and wearing a goatee had filmed himself live in the morning on a Facebook account in the name of Ray Roseberry, uttering incoherent threats at the wheel of a black pickup.

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Fifteen Malian soldiers were killed and many others injured during an ambush attributed to jihadists tense Thursday in the center of the country, announced the Malian army.

Eighty people - 65 civilians and 15 gendarmes - were killed during the jihadist attack on Wednesday against a military convoy escorting civilians in northern Burkina Faso, according to a new official report released Thursday evening.

Sireli Maqala, Olympic champion with Fiji in rugby sevens, has given up his transfer to the Bayonne club in Pro D2, reveals the Fijian press on Friday.

Benoît Paire, 50th in the world, beat American John Isner (N.26) on Thursday to reach the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati, which Gaël Monfils, eliminated, will not find.

Among the ladies, Naomi Osaka, world No.2, suffered one of her worst defeats this season when she was eliminated in the third round by the Swiss Jil Teichmann.