Fire fixed in Gironde, 400 hectares burned in Charente
SAUMOS (Gironde) - In the south-west, two fires burned 400 hectares in southern Charente on Thursday evening, while firefighters in the region, marked by multiple fires this summer, had just fixed a gigantic fire in the neighbouring department of Gironde a few hours earlier. In Charente, two fires ravaged pine and deciduous forests in villages located about thirty kilometers south of Angoulême., mobilizing four Canadair, three Dash, two helicopters and nearly 580 firefighters, the prefecture said Thursday evening.

Immigration: Macron announces a bill for early 2023
A bill on asylum and immigration will be tabled “from the beginning of 2023", announced Emmanuel Macron, with the aim of putting an end to an “absurd policy.” “We have a policy that is both ineffective and inhuman, ineffective because we end up with more foreigners in an irregular situation than many of our neighbours, inhuman because this pressure makes them too often not welcomed,” the president asked by way of observation. The Head of State pleaded for a better distribution of foreigners welcomed on the territory, especially in “rural areas, which are losing population”, and where “we will have to close classes, probably schools and colleges”.

Ukraine: Zelensky denounces mass grave in Izium, new American aid
A “mass grave” has been discovered in Izium, a city taken over from the Russians by Ukraine, its president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday evening, whose country will benefit from new American aid. “Tomorrow (Friday) Ukrainian and international journalists will come to Izium. We want the world to know what is really going on and what the Russian occupation has led to. Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium... “, Mr. Zelensky said in his daily video address, without giving details about the number of people buried or the causes of their deaths. Sergiy Botvinov, a regional police official, spoke on Sky News of “440 bodies.” “We know that some have been killed (shot down), others have died as a result of artillery fire, as a result of trauma caused by mine explosions. Some died in airstrikes. We also have information that many bodies have not yet been identified,” he said on this British television channel. The White House has also approved up to $600 million in additional military assistance to Ukraine, according to a statement Thursday. This assistance consists of equipment and services, but also training, according to the American executive, which does not give further details, particularly on the armaments supplied.

Tennis legend Roger Federer announces his retirement
Twenty Grand Slams and an indelible mark on the history of tennis: at the age of 41, and after more than a year without playing, the Swiss legend Roger Federer announced his retirement on Thursday, at the end of the Laver Cup, which was scheduled to take place from 23 to 25 September. Less than two weeks after Serena Williams, another icon of the game is coming to an end, just as a new generation is emerging, embodied by the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, crowned at the US Open and No. 1 in the world at the age of only 19. Serena Williams paid tribute to Roger Federer on Thursday by assuring that she was one of the “millions of people” whom Switzerland had “inspired”, and welcomed him to the retirement club, which these two sacred tennis monsters will soon share.

IN SHORT
A “moment of discussion” with heavy files two months before the World Cup: Noël Le Graët is expected at the Ministry of Sport on Friday, at a time when the boss of the French Football Federation is facing embarrassing press reports about his management and his behavior with employees.
The food giant Nestlé aims to restart in November, subject to the green light of the authorities, one of the two production lines at its Caudry plant (Nord), from which Buitoni pizzas contaminated with E.coli bacteria came from, linked to the death of two children and the poisoning of dozens of others.
Charles III completed his tour as the new sovereign across the United Kingdom in Wales on Friday, three days before the grandiose funeral of his mother Elizabeth II, a symbol of stability and unity for the British for more than 70 years.
The Perseverance rover has taken a major step in its search for traces of ancient life on Mars with the collection of the “most precious” samples to date, containing potential biosignatures whose nature will have to be confirmed once on Earth, NASA announced.
Mathias Pogba, the elder brother of French soccer star Paul Pogba, admitted while in custody in the investigation into the extortions denounced by his brother, that he was behind a video threatening him, a source close to the case confirmed by Le Parisien on Thursday.