Gironde: The fire is heading east

This Tuesday, July 19, 2022, the heat wave will continue to rage in the eastern half of France. It is nevertheless to be hoped that the Atlantic facade will have some respite, after a night of extreme temperatures in Gironde on the front of the two giant fires that engulfed 17.000 hectares of forest (4,700 hectares of forest in La Teste-de-Buch and 12,000 in Landiras, 50 km to the east). In all, about 1,700 firemen from all over France, backed up by large airborne resources, fought these two fires. 16,000 people had to be evacuated last Monday because of the heat wave, which caused temperatures to rise to 40 degrees Celsius, and a total of 32,000 people have been evacuated in the last six days.

Twitter vs. Elon Musk: First meeting in court

The lawyers of the platform and Elon Musk will face this Tuesday, July 19, 2022 in a preliminary hearing to an unprecedented legal battle between the richest man in the world and Twitter, determined to be bought by the one who coveted it. Recall that the social network had launched a week ago against the boss of Tesla and SpaceX to force him to actually acquire for $ 44 billion in accordance with its initial commitment.

Women's Euro: The blue cashed a goal that makes stain

France cashed in a penalty last Monday at the Euro against Iceland. A mishap without great consequence but which makes stain before the quarters and making the final score to (1-1). This goal taken in the additional time comes to hinder the victorious course of the blues who won sixteen matches successively. Corinne Diacre, the coach of the French team expressed her regrets on TF1: "We would have preferred to win tonight, we had the opportunities, but the VAR was not with us".

IN BRIEF

Two districts of Barbentane (Bouches-du-Rhône) were evacuated according to information from the fire department and the mayor of the town following the "virulent" resumption of the fire triggered by sparks from a passing freight train south of Avignon.

This Monday, July 18, 2022, clashes taking place in a prison in Ecuador, caused the death of 13 people. These acts, which are becoming more and more regular in this South American country, are described as "barbaric" by the authorities.

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the great ranking "50 Best Restaurants", the Danish restaurant "Geranium", directed by the chef Rasmus Kofoed in Copenhagen, was crowned on Monday evening in London "best restaurant in the world 2022".

For the first time in his career, the Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali was crowned world champion of the 3,000 m steeplechase, Monday in Eugene (Oregon), the French Mehdi Belhadj finishing 13th.