The toll of the earthquake in Haiti increases, aid is organized in landlocked regions

The toll of the earthquake that devastated Haiti on August 14 has increased with the announcement by the authorities on Sunday of the death of at least 2,207 people in the south-west of the Caribbean country where aid is slowly reaching the victims. "New bodies have been found in the south. The human toll for the three departments now rises to 2,207 dead, 344 missing and 12,268 injured," said the civil protection report published on Sunday. The previous count reported 2,189 dead victims. Eight days after the disaster, search operations continue in the rubble, but the possibility of finding survivors is dwindling by the hour. Nearly 600,000 people have been directly affected by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake and are in need of emergency humanitarian assistance, say the Haitian authorities.

Tens of Thousands of Americans Without Power Due to Storm Henri

More than 100,000 inhabitants of the northeastern United States were without electricity on Sunday when storm Henri passed, according to a specialized site, while President Joe Biden called for caution in the face of the risk of flooding in particular. More than 72,000 people in the state of Rhode Island, 30,000 in Connecticut, and 10,000 in Massachusetts, were victims of a power outage during the day according to the site poweroutage.us. The storm hit the US coast near Rhode Island at 12:15 p.m. (4:15 p.m. GMT), according to the US weather services (National Weather Service). In its 5:00 p.m. (21:00 GMT) bulletin, the American Hurricane Monitoring Center, the NHC, indicated that the storm was blowing with winds of up to 65 km / h, down from 120 km / h the previous day. observed at sea.

The artist and resistance fighter Joséphine Baker will enter the Pantheon

Resistant, anti-racist activist, artist, Josephine Baker will enter the Pantheon this fall, becoming the first black woman to join the great personalities who are buried there. The Franco-American artist will enter the Republican mausoleum dedicated to the characters who have marked the History of France on November 30, we learned on Sunday from the entourage of President Emmanuel Macron, confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien. The ceremony will make the famous reviewer, born in Missouri in 1906, died in 1975 and buried in Monaco, the first black woman to rest in the secular necropolis and only the sixth woman to take place there, Simone Veil having been the last woman to enter in 2018.

L1: Nice-Marseille stopped by projectile throwing

The Nice-Marseille match was stopped on Sunday an hour and a half after fans invaded the pitch following an incident that ignited the match: yet another plastic bottle thrown at Dimitri Payet, which the player sent back to the gallery. Nice were leading 1-0, but the match did not end. A week after an interruption in Montpellier, where supporters had also thrown bottles on the field, already against OM, French football experienced a new incident, the second of the same order, on the 3rd day of a Ligue 1 which finds its audience after a season behind closed doors. After 90 minutes of procrastination, the match was definitively stopped when the referee, Benoît Bastien, put the ball at the corner post, whistled and noted the absence of the Marseillais.

IN SHORT

"Catastrophic" flooding in Tennessee killed at least 21 people, authorities in this southern American state reported on Sunday, and dozens of people remained wanted, according to several local media.

Unlucky in 2017, 2019 and 2020, the Toyota N.7 of Briton Mike Conway, Japanese Kamui Kobayashi and Argentinian José Maria Lopez ended up winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans, despite concerns in the final hours.