Presidential election: Macron and Le Pen confront each other through the media
They do not leave each other of a sole. The two finalists in the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, clashed on Friday through the media.The two finalists, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, will clash on Friday through the media, after a campaign marked by a quest for proximity for the president-candidate and a search for credibility for the far-right candidate. After her first big meeting since the first round, Thursday evening in Avignon, the RN candidate will start at 7:45 a.m. on France Bleu Vaucluse, then France Bleu Provence before going on RMC-BFMTV from Avignon. She will then travel in the region.
At the same time, the outgoing president, who was the day before in Le Havre to talk about ecology, will be the guest of franceinfo for an hour in the morning, before France 2 in the evening. Big media duel at a distance in perspective on two candidates, two projects, two radically opposed France. Nine days before the election, the outgoing president still has the advantage in voting intentions (from 53 to 55%) but with a smaller margin than five years ago (64/36%). And with still several unknowns, notably the level of abstention and the transfer of the 21,95% of votes which went on Sunday to the rebel candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
South Africa: more than 340 dead in unprecedented floods
Rescue workers backed by helicopters continued to remove bodies from the rubble of the unprecedented floods that have hit South Africa for four days, a new toll rose in the evening to 341 dead and 41.The intense rescue phase is largely over. Right now, our job is mainly to recover bodies," said Travis Trower, who is leading rescue teams. A native of the region, he admitted to witnessing "the worst disaster in 20 years" in the eastern province of Kwazulu-Natal. Most of the victims were recorded in the region of Durban, a major African port open to the Indian Ocean and epicenter of the heavy rains that began last weekend.
Elon Musk determined to buy and transform Twitter
Elon Musk, already the main shareholder of Twitter with a little more than 9% of its capital, now wants to take over the entire company and remove it from the stock market. of the company and remove it from Wall Street, with the declared idea of making it "the platform of freedom of expression in the world". His offer, which would value Twitter at $43.4 billion, compared to about $36 billion at present, comes after two weeks of ups and downs between the richest man in the world and the social network, and raises many questions about his intentions and the future of the blue bird. "I propose to buy 100% of Twitter at a price of 54.20 dollars per share in cash," said the boss of Tesla in a document sent Wednesday to the U.S. stock market regulator, the SEC. The board of directors of the Californian group replied "examine carefully" this offer.
IN BRIEF
Outgoing President Emmanuel Macron would win in the second round of the presidential election against Marine Le Pen, with a score of 54% against 46% for the RN candidate, according to a BVA poll for RTL and Orange published Friday.
A group of hackers linked to North Korea is responsible for the theft of $620 million in cryptocurrencies that followed the hacking of the video game Axie Infinity in late March, U.S. authorities said Thursday.
Eintracht Frankfurt created a sensation on Wednesday by downing Barcelona 3-2 after a 1-1 draw in the first leg to reach the Europa League semifinals, where they will face West Ham, who beat Lyon 1-1, 3-0.