Europe once again becomes the epicenter of the pandemic, new measures on the American continent

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed alarm at the further worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, while, on the other side of the Atlantic, the majority of American employees will be required to get vaccinated. This fourth “massive” wave on the European continent particularly hits Germany, which broke its previous record for daily contaminations dating from December 2020, with 33,949 new cases in 24 hours. “We are, again, at the epicenter,” lamented the director of WHO Europe, Hans Kluge. "The current rate of transmission in the 53 countries of the European region is very worrying (...). If we stay on this trajectory, we could see another half million deaths from Covid-19 in the region of here in February,” he warned.

Masters 1000 of Paris: Gaston takes Alcaraz and Bercy in his whirlwind

Hugo Gaston's new Parisian odyssey never ends: the young Frenchman waltzed with the young Spanish nugget Carlos Alcaraz to invite himself to the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 at Bercy in a heated atmosphere on Thursday evening. A little over a year after his epic run to the round of 16 at Roland-Garros, here is the Toulouse left-hander, winner 6-4, 7-5, for the first time at this stage of the competition in Masters 1000. He will challenge the world No.2 and recent winner of the US Open Daniil Medvedev on Friday. "I inevitably feel a little tired, but I play tennis to play matches like that, with a full stadium like that, appreciates Gaston. It's only + kiff + to be here."

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"A bicot like that does not swim": four months of suspended prison sentence were required Thursday evening in Bobigny against a police officer, betrayed by the video of a resident, who had uttered racist insults during the arrest of an Egyptian in April 2020.

The controversial Didier Raoult, cantor of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, is to be heard Friday morning by the disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians of New Aquitaine in Bordeaux, where two complaints against him from his peers are examined for violations of the code of ethics.

France is dispatching a rescue team to Nepal on Friday to try to find the bodies of three young mountaineers swept away by an avalanche while attempting a first on a 6,000 m summit in the Everest massif.