Covid-19: the simplified health pass in shopping centers

The sign that the Covid-19 epidemic is slowing down and the end of a big blur: the health pass will no longer be mandatory at the entrance of the vast majority of shopping centers as of Wednesday and to the great relief of professionals. Exceptions remain, especially in the South-East

The Taliban say they control all of Afghanistan, Massoud calls for an uprising

The Taliban say they have control of all of Afghanistan, claiming to have brought down the Panchir Valley where the local resistance leader, Ahmad Massoud, called for rising up against them. This landlocked and hard-to-access valley, 80 km north of Kabul, was the last hotbed of armed opposition to the Taliban who took power on August 15 thanks to a blunt military campaign, two weeks before the departure of the last foreign troops. A long-standing anti-Taliban stronghold, Panchir, which the legendary commander Ahmed Shah Massoud helped make famous in the late 1980s before being assassinated by Al-Qaeda in 2001, is home to the National Resistance Front

IN A NUTSHELL

His interpretation of Omar, a unique and essential character in the cult series “The Wire”, had made him famous: the American actor Michael K. Williams, several times nominated for the Emmy Awards, was found dead on Monday in his apartment in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 54.

The promotional video for an antifascist music festival, in which rappers insult the police, led Laurent Wauquiez, president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, to cancel the 45,000 euros grant paid by the region to the cultural and social center of Villeurbanne (Rhône), which considers himself wrongly sanctioned.

Fifty international officials on Monday called for accelerated preparation for the effects of climate change such as extreme storms, floods and droughts, recalling that most of these phenomena are “tragically, already inexorable.”