Hurricane Ida plunges New Orleans into darkness

New Orleans was completely without power Sunday evening, hours after Hurricane Ida landed in Louisiana, 16 years to the day after the devastation of Katrina. The company Entergy, which distributes electricity in southeast Louisiana, "confirmed that New Orleans was without power," tweeted NOLA Ready, an agency of the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. . "The only electricity in the city comes from generators," she said. In total, nearly a million homes were without power Sunday evening across Louisiana, according to the specialized site poweroutage.us. Classified in category 4 on her arrival at midday on the coast of Louisiana, Ida went to category 3 at the start of the evening, the same category as Katrina which had devastated this state in the southern United States in 2005. "C is a potentially deadly cyclone," said President Joe Biden, who visited the headquarters of the US Crisis Management Agency (FEMA).

L1 / Reims-Paris SG: Messi played, Mbappé scored

Lionel Messi played his first thirty minutes with Paris Saint-Germain, applauded by the entire Reims stadium for a victory (2-0) signed before his entry by Kylian Mbappé, for the fourth day of Ligue 1. The Auguste stadium- Delaune, who hadn't seen this since Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine in the 1950s, gave a royal and very fair-play welcome to the immense Parisian rookie. And his team could only bow. PSG recovers first place with this fourth victory in four matches and will wait feverishly for the end of the transfer window, Tuesday at midnight, to find out if it eats MNM's (Messi-Neymar-Mbappé) all season. Real Madrid are still courting the world champion and have even raised the stakes to 180 million euros, but PSG repeat that they refuse to sell their striker to the Spanish club.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry, producer who made reggae music take over the world by guiding Bob Marley, died Sunday at the age of 85, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced.

Belgian Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013, died at the age of 79, the body announced on Sunday, sparking a wave of tributes in the world of sport and culture. Politics.