Hurricane lan: Cuba plunged into darkness

On Tuesday 27, Cuba was plunged into darkness in the evening because of a generalized power cut due to the damages on its electrical network caused by the hurricane.Fortunately, it did not make victims but now it is threatening Florida. The state electricity company Union Eléctrica informed that the country is "without electrical service". It explains that this national blackout by the passage of the hurricane of category 3 ravaged the west of the island.

South of Florida, announced the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) the "center of Ian should move over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico in a few hours, pass west of the Keys archipelago Then approach the west coast of Florida (...) Wednesday and Wednesday night." NHC had previously warned that the phenomenon was considered an "intense hurricane extremely dangerous.

Annexation referendums: the victory of the "yes" claimed by the pro-Russian authorities

On Tuesday 27, the victory of the "yes" was claimed in favor of annexation by Russia. This claim was made by the pro-Russian authorities in the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhia, Kherson, Lugansk and Donetsk during the annexation referendums organized by Moscow and denounced by Kiev and its Western backers.

The next step is supposed to be voted on by the Russian Parliament in the coming days, a treaty formalizing the integration of the four regions into Russian territory. As early as September 30, President Vladimir Putin could make a speech to formally announce the annexation of the Ukrainian territories, according to Russian agencies.

IN BRIEF

The northern giant of women's ready-to-wear clothing will try to convince the Lille commercial court this Wednesday 28 September that it can escape liquidation, two years after a first rescue. The unions fear the worst.

While hundreds of thousands of people have taken refuge in shelters, the National Meteorological Institute announced on the morning of Wednesday 28 that Typhoon Noru has made landfall along the central coast of Vietnam, causing strong winds and heavy rains.

An official of the American space agency judging more probable a launch in November, estimates on Tuesday 27 that it will be difficult to proceed to a new attempt of takeoff in October for the new mega rocket of the Nasa towards the Moon.

For forgery and undue registration on an electoral list in Papeete, the former president of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse was sentenced on Tuesday 27 by the correctional court of Papeete to a new sentence of ineligibility of five years.

On Tuesday 27, in Harrison (New Jersey), Lionel Messi played only the last 35 minutes during the success of Argentina against Jamaica (3-0), the time to score a double embellishing his 100th victory in selection.