We start with a point on the news:
• #COP27 Political leaders around the world are marching from today at COP27, under pressure to step up their climate commitments in the face of runaway warming and to provide financial support to poor countries, which are suffering the most. Some 110 heads of state and government are due to speak today and tomorrow to delegates gathered in Sharm e-Sheikh, Egypt.
• #UNITED STATES On D-1 of mid-term elections just as decisive for the presidency of Joe Biden as for the political future of Donald Trump, the two American presidents will face each other today by interposed meetings, for the final sprint of the country. Americans are called to the polls on Tuesday to renew the entire House of Representatives and a third of the Senate.
• #TENNIS Becoming yesterday, in Fort Worth (Texas), the third Frenchwoman in history to reach the final of the WTA Masters, Caroline Garcia said to herself “really very proud” of his performance, after having “made a great game” to eliminate the Greek Maria Sakkari 6-3, 6-2. She will face the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, 7th in the world.
• Heavy rains fell yesterday in several municipalities of Guadeloupe causing flooding and landslides, weeks after Storm Fiona caused major damage to the island.