Presidential: let's go for the official campaign!

After a weekend of mobilization in all camps, it's time for the official campaign on Monday, which gives the candidates - including the favorite Emmanuel Macron - two weeks to raise awareness among the French who have so far been rather in the background. Thirteen days before the first round on April 10, and the day after meetings full of fervor on the right and on the left, nothing is yet folded. But the polls of voting intentions, which are only a snapshot with margins of error, follow one another and place the outgoing president far ahead of the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is closely followed by the leader of the radical left Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The ex-polemicist Eric Zemmour and the right-wing candidate Valérie Pécresse are vying for fourth and fifth places. Nearly four out of ten voters sure to vote have not yet made their choice and are "in hesitation", Adelaide Zulfikarpasic, director of BVA Opinion, reminded AFP on Friday.

Oscars: minute of silence in support of Ukraine, diversity rewarded

The organizers of the Oscars ceremony on Sunday called for a minute of silence "in support of the Ukrainian people" during a gala evening where the favorite "CODA" triumphed with the supreme award for best feature film.

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New fires have broken out in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian authorities who have called for the "demilitarization" of the sector under the aegis of the UN.

The Sidaction association collected 4 million euros in pledges for the fight against AIDS during its traditional annual fundraising weekend, an amount slightly lower than that of the previous year.

Gael Monfils (24th in the world) was eliminated in the third round of the Masters 1000 in Miami on Sunday, beaten bluntly 6-2, 6-3 by Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo (103rd). The Frenchman, notably weighed down by a rather mediocre first ball (56% success), ran out of juice in this match where his modest opponent often dictated the game and deserved his victory.

The American Scottie Scheffler made a two-putt Sunday, since he became the new world No.1 in golf at the age of 25, thanks to his victory at the World Match-Play Championship (WGC) in Austin, in Texas.

Canada, after 36 years of scarcity, qualified on Sunday for the World Cup-2022, where the United States and Mexico are almost certain to accompany it, even if it will be necessary to wait for the final day for it to be