Coup in Guinea, President Alpha Condé captured by coup plotters

Guinean special forces officers have claimed to have captured President Alpha Condé, taken control of Conakry and “dissolved” the institutions, in a coup that could spell the retirement of a veteran of African politics, but condemned by the international community. No deaths have been reported, despite the intense crackling of automatic weapons heard in the morning in the capital of this country that is accustomed to brutal political confrontations. The apparent epilogue of more than ten years of the Condé regime has given rise to scenes of jubilation in various districts of the capital. A curfew has been established throughout the country, and the country's borders have been closed. The coup was condemned by the UN, the African Union and France, which called for the “immediate” release of President Conde

The climate cannot wait for the pandemic to end, alert medical journals

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, the world cannot postpone “urgent” measures to be taken against global warming and the destruction of nature, which threaten human health, the world's leading medical journals plead on Monday in an unprecedented editorial. “Health is already being altered by the rise in global temperature and the destruction of nature,” write the editors of twenty prestigious journals, including the Lancet, the British Medical Journal or the National Medical Journal of India. “Despite the legitimate concern for Covid-19, we cannot wait for the pandemic to end to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions”, the authors of this call insist, two months before the crucial UN COP26 climate conference in Glasgow

Health scandal: Messi and Neymar deprived of the Brazil-Argentina clash

The reunion between Messi and Neymar with their selections came to a halt, with the end of the Brazil-Argentina match, on Sunday, in Sao Paulo, following the intervention of the Brazilian health authorities, four Argentine players playing in England being accused of violating anti-covid protocols. Fifa confirmed in a statement that this qualifying meeting for the 2022 World Cup had been “suspended by decision of the referee”, without specifying whether or not it will be postponed to a later date. The kick-off was barely five minutes ago when the surreal scene occurred: representatives of the Anvisa health agency and the federal police entered the field to end the meeting, in total confusion. According to the health agency, Giovanni Lo Celso (Tottenham), Emiliano Martinez (Aston Villa), Emiliano Buendia (Aston Villa) and Cristian Romero (Tottenham) have failed to report that they had stayed in the United Kingdom during

IN A NUTSHELL

See you in Paris, which will host its first Paralympic Games in three years. Just before the Paralympic Flame was extinguished in Tokyo during the closing ceremony of the Games, the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo received the Paralympic Flag from the hands of the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Andrew Parsons