Mediterranean: For the first time, France lets 230 migrants land

It's a first in France. The humanitarian ship Ocean Viking is due to land 230 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean at the military port of Toulon on Friday. An action that arouses strong tensions with Italy and triggers a new controversy on the hot topic of immigration.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced on Thursday that after three weeks of wandering in vain in search of a safe port in Italy, the Ocean Viking, an ambulance boat chartered by the NGO SOS Mediterranee, will dock in Toulon, “exceptionally” and in accordance with “a duty of humanity” acute;.

Their arrival in France particularly upset the far right, which called for “laxity” in the voice of Marine Le Pen while the left and ecologists welcomed a “decision worthy of the values” of France.

Save Who Can on Twitter

Cascading resignations, warnings from authorities, and flight from advertisers: Elon Musk's Twitter was running out of steam on all sides Thursday, despite his mixed efforts to motivate remaining employees. “The future is very exciting, I can't wait to make it happen with you,” said the new boss on Thursday at the start of an internal meeting, for employees who were not thanked during the mass layoffs a week ago.

But the threat of bankruptcy emerged when he then admitted that he didn't know how much the business would “miss out on revenue” next year. “It is possible that we have a cash flow deficit of several billion,” he said, according to messages between employees consulted by AFP.

Midterm elections: American president expected and under pressure at COP27

Encouraged by the mid-term elections, Joe Biden made a brief stop today at COP27 to reaffirm the United States' climate commitments, under pressure to increase its aid to poor countries, at the forefront of climate change. The American president will recall that the United States passed a law this summer investing 369 billion dollars in green energy projects and climate initiatives. This, a few days after the summit, which saw dozens of its counterparts march in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Washington for its part has not kept its commitments as part of rich countries' promise to provide 100 billion in funding per year to the poorest, to fight emissions and adapt to climate change. Thus, according to a reference study published today, CO2 emissions produced by the consumption of fossil fuels, oil, gas or coal will exceed their record level in 2022, after the air gap caused by Covid

IN SHORT

Paris subway and RER traffic was severely disrupted on Thursday because of the strike called by all RATP unions. The impact of this strike contrasted with the low mobilization of the national action day organized in parallel by the CGT.

The reconquest of a dozen villages in the Kherson region in the south of the country has been announced by Ukraine. Moscow confirmed that it had begun to withdraw, another major setback for Vladimir Putin's army.

Oscar-winning Canadian filmmaker Paul Haggis responsible for raping an advertising agent in 2013 to whom he must pay 7.5 million dollars was found in a civil court in New York on Thursday.

Lazio Rome, winning Monza (1-0) and getting out of the Verona trap (1-0) by Moise Kean, jumped into the Top 4 and moved up to second place in Serie A alongside AC Milan and Juventus.

The navigator Armel Le Cléac'h, one of the favourites in the 12th edition of the Route du Rhum, suffered a crash, arrived at the port of Lorient around 23:00 on Thursday where he expressed his “huge disappointment”.