It’s a little after noon. What to remember from the news?
• #SEVERE WEATHER With two dead and 47 injured, the toll from Storm Ciaran is “heavy”, judges Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, traveling to Caen (Calvados). Emmanuel Macron is expected in Brittany in the coming hours. Follow the situation in our live stream.
• #SEVERE WEATHER Orange vigilance is lifted for Landes. It is maintained for Pas-de-Calais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. Some 523,000 homes are still without electricity after Storm Ciaran. Returns from vacation will be “insured” to the SNCF despite disruptions, says Transport Minister Clément Beaune.
• #ISRAEL_PALESTINE “France condemns the attacks against United Nations sites and humanitarian personnel, whose work is essential to the civilian populations of Gaza”assures government spokesperson Olivier Véran.
• #ISRAEL_PALESTINE Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to deliver a speech at 2 p.m. (Paris time). He will speak during a ceremony organized in the southern suburbs of Beirut, stronghold of Hezbollah, to honor the “martyrs” of the powerful pro-Iranian formation dead since October 7. Above all, we will know if he will involve Lebanon in the conflict.
03-Nov-2023 12:11