Ukraine: Scholz expected in Moscow, timid hopes of avoiding war
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is expected in Moscow on Tuesday in search of a diplomatic solution to avoid a war in Ukraine, the West and Russia evoking timid opportunities to achieve this. In kyiv on Monday, Scholz urged Russia to seize 'offers for dialogue', as more than 100,000 Russian troops are massed on Ukraine's borders and the US says those capabilities have been further boosted the last days. In the event of an attack, warned the German Chancellor, "we will take far-reaching measures which will have a significant impact on the possibilities of economic development in Russia". He specified that he would express this message on Tuesday in Moscow.
Canada: faced with the challenge, Trudeau invokes an emergency law
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday the exceptional use of the Emergency Measures Act to end the "illegal" blockades of anti-sanitary measures protesters that have been underway in the country for more than two weeks. It is only the second time that this provision has been activated in peacetime, the last time dating back to the crisis of 1970 when Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the father of the current Prime Minister was in power. "The federal government is invoking the Emergency Measures Act to supplement provincial and territorial powers and deal with blockades and occupations," he said, noting that the military would not be deployed and that new measures would be "limited in time and geographically".
Facebook News arrives in France
Facebook launches in France from Tuesday its news feed reserved for journalistic content, Facebook News, a guarantee of increased visibility for the media and a symbol in the face of accusations of disinformation aimed at the social network. Initially, this service will begin to be rolled out to a small number of French Facebook users. After this launch, its generalization will be gradual and Facebook News should be available to all users in France by May, according to Meta, the American group that owns the social network. France becomes the fifth country where Facebook News is launched, after the United States at the end of 2019, the United Kingdom in January 2021, Germany in May and then Australia in August.
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A thousand mercenaries from the Russian group Wagner are now in Mali, said Monday evening the head of French diplomacy, repeating that the conditions were "no longer met" for the continuation of the mission of the French force Barkhane in this country. .
La Creuse refused the proposal of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Games to pass the Olympic flame on its territory: the cost of 150,000 euros to be borne by the department would have represented half of the annual subsidies granted to sports associations.