And presto, we continue with a first point on the news:
• #UKRAINE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak to the UN Security Council after the discovery of massacres attributed to Russian forces in Boutcha, where he went yesterday. Russia denied any responsibility, assuring that it was going to present “docs” proving it. Here’s what to remember from yesterday.
• #PRESIDENTIAL Jean-Luc Mélenchon holds the last big meeting of his presidential campaign in Lille by multiplying in eleven other cities thanks to holograms. The third man (credited with 16% of voting intentions) is trying to upset the match between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, whose gap is closing (26.5% to 21%), according to our Ipsos Sopra Steria poll.
• Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, a former militia leader, will be the first person to be tried before the International Criminal Court for the atrocities committed in Darfur (Sudan), the scene of a bloodbath almost twenty years ago. He is charged with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed in 2003-2004.
• #WEATHER The IPCC, the group of experts on the climate of the UN, released the third part of its sixth report yesterday, devoted to the solutions to be brought to the crisis. Here’s what to remember.