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10:03 p.m. : In Gayan, in the province of Paktika, graves are hastily dug by the dozen after an earthquake that hit the south-east of the country and has already killed more than 1,000 people. In this mountainous area and very difficult to access, the inhabitants try to find survivors.
6:39 p.m. : It is 6 p.m. Here is the update on the news:
After the consultations, the speech: Emmanuel Macron will speak at 8 p.m. This is his first speech since the results of the legislative elections. Follow our live.
French paleontologist Yves Coppens has died at the age of 87, announces his editor, Odile Jacob.
• The contours of the new Assembly continue to take shape. We know the presidents of the main parliamentary groups: Olivier Marleix for LR, Aurore Bergé for Renaissance (ex-LREM), Laurent Marcangeli for Horizons, Jean-Paul Mattei for the MoDem and André Chassaigne for the PCF.
#ZACHAROPOULOU An investigation has been opened against Secretary of State Chrysoula Zacharopoulou after two complaints of rape, as part of her duties as a gynecologist.
• A devastating earthquake hit a remote border area in southeast Afghanistan this morning. More than a thousand people have been killed and several hundred others injured, authorities said, fearing the toll could worsen further.
2:29 p.m. : It is 2 p.m. Here is the update on the news:
#ZACHAROPOULOU An investigation has been opened against Secretary of State Chrysoula Zacharopoulou after two complaints of rape, as part of her duties as a gynecologist.
How to avoid parliamentary deadlock? Emmanuel Macron continues his tour of the political forces, in search of a difficult consensus in the Assembly. The President of the Republic received Julien Bayou (EELV), Adrien Quatennens (LFI) and Edouard Philippe (Horizons) in the morning.
• The contours of the new Assembly continue to take shape: the elected representative of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix, 51, was elected at the head of the LR deputies, while the elected representative of Yvelines Aurore Bergé was elected president of the Renaissance deputies (LREM). Laurent Marcangeli, mayor of Ajaccio, will be president of the Horizons group.
• A devastating earthquake hit a remote border area in southeast Afghanistan this morning. More than a thousand people have been killed and several hundred more are injured, authorities said, fearing the toll could rise further.
•A Turkish merchant ship was able to leave the Ukrainian port of Mariupol after grain talks in Moscow. Follow our live.
12:38 : Hello @Clo. “The government is doing the best it can”tweeted Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official. “We hope that the international community and humanitarian organizations will also help people in this terrible situation.” The UN has announced that it has deployed teams to assess the extent of the damage in several of the affected areas.
12:38 : Is international aid planned for Afghanistan? Have the authorities spoken on the subject?
12:14 p.m. : Here is the update on the news at midday:
How to avoid parliamentary deadlock? Emmanuel Macron continues his tour of the political forces, in search of a difficult consensus in the Assembly. The President of the Republic received in the morning the national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens Julien Bayou, before the president of the LFI group Mathilde Panot, and his former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, boss of the Horizons party.
• The contours of the new Assembly continue to take shape: the elected representative of Eure-et-Loir Olivier Marleix, 51, was elected head of the LR deputies, while the elected representative of Yvelines Aurore Bergé was appointed president of the LREM deputies in the first round of an internal vote, facing three other candidates.
• A devastating earthquake hit a remote border area in southeast Afghanistan this morning. At least 920 people have been killed and several hundred more are injured, authorities said, fearing the toll could rise further.
• The arrival of summer rhymes again this year in Europe with an increase in Covid-19 cases, driven by new sub-variants of Omicron. France is not to be outdone, with a circulation of the virus which has accelerated for ten days in mainland France. The rate of daily contamination is now over 44,000 cases.
11:17 a.m. : “Many houses have been damaged and people are trapped inside” in the isolated border area of southeast Afghanistan hit this morning by the earthquake which killed at least 920 people, announced the deputy government spokesman Bilal Karimi. “We call on aid agencies to provide immediate assistance to the victims of the earthquake in order to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe”he previously tweeted.
11:15 a.m. : The balance sheet of the earthquake which occurred this morning in Afghanistan has now reached 920 dead, announces the government.
09:52 : The balance sheet of the earthquake in Afghanistan officially increases to 255 dead, announces the spokesman of the government of the country.