The 43-year-old astronaut spent some 200 days in weightlessness

"Pride to have represented France once again in space!" Tweeted a few hours before the departure of the man who, through his abundant publications on social networks, offered millions of people a taste of life in orbit. “Next time, the Moon?” he said.

Child crime: the bishops make a financial commitment to compensate the victims

They are going to put their hands in their pockets and are asking for control from the Vatican: the Catholic bishops of France have decided to set up a system of compensation for victims of pedocrime in the Church, undertaking in particular to finance this compensation "in disposing of real estate". The 120 prelates announced concrete measures, after recognizing on Friday the "institutional responsibility" of the Church in these pedocriminal acts and their "systemic dimension". An "independent national body for recognition and reparation", headed by a lawyer, will be set up to investigate the requests of victims of sexual violence, explained the president of the Conference of Bishops of France (CEF), Mgr Éric de Moulins- Beaufort. It will be chaired by Marie Derain de Vaucresson, former defender of children, who will constitute "her team as she pleases on the model of the Sauvé commission", he specified.

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France solemnly returns to Benin on Tuesday 26 works from the royal treasures of Abomey looted in the 19th century by colonial troops, a "historic moment of national pride" for the Beninese authorities

A rare crackdown in the ransomware world has arrested seven hackers, including a 22-year-old Ukrainian man implicated in the giant cyberattack on Kaseya in July, US and European authorities said on Monday.

The National Assembly voted at first reading the credits for the France 2030 investment plan, adopting "the most expensive amendment of the Fifth Republic", of 34 billion euros, including 3.5 billion from 2022, a method decried by the opposition.