2023 budget in France: Funding for Education, Work and Solidarity increased by 12.5 billion euros

In an interview to be published on Monday in Les Echos, the Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal informs that the government wants to increase the appropriations allocated in the 2023 budget to Education, Work and Solidarity by 12.5 billion euros, this increase is estimated at 11.4%. “The employment budget will increase by 6.7 billion in particular, in order to finance the ramping up of apprenticeships, with a target of 1 million apprentices by the end of the five-year term”, he details. According to him, National Education “will benefit from a historic increase (+3.6 billion) in its credits. The President of the Republic's commitment to continuing to raise wages will be kept and no teacher will start their career with less than 2,000 euros net.”

44 deaths have been counted as a result of the precarious truce between Israel and the Islamic Jihad

After three days of hostilities that claimed the lives of 44 Palestinians, including children, in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, the precarious truce that went into effect Sunday night between the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad and Israel was apparently respected Monday morning. The truce, officially started Sunday at 23:30 (20:30 GMT), seemed to hold out four hours later, with no party reporting a major breach of the agreement. Until the last minutes before the start of the truce, brokered by Egypt, the Israeli army said it carried out strikes on Islamic Jihad positions in Gaza “in response to rockets fired” at southern Israeli territory where the warning sirens sounded. The Israeli military said its “last” strike took place at 11:25pm.

Climate and health in the US: Senate adopts comprehensive plan

The US Senate has adopted Joe Biden's grand plan on climate and health. After 18 months of negotiations and a marathon night of debates, a significant victory went to the president, less than 100 days before crucial elections. By their votes alone, the Democrats approved this plan of more than $430 billion in investments, which is heading to the House of Representatives for a final vote next week, before being signed into law by Joe Biden. “This bill will change America for decades to come,” said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, his voice quivering just after the vote, to thunderous applause from his side.

Nuclear power plant in Ukraine: the largest site in Europe bombed again, departure of four cargo ships loaded with grain

As four new cargo ships loaded with grain, crucial for global food security, left Ukrainian ports; the site of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, the largest in Europe, was for the second time in just over 24 hours Hours the target of strikes this weekend. As after the previous bombings on Friday on these facilities located in southern Ukraine that fell into the hands of Russian soldiers in early March, the two belligerents accused each other on Sunday of attacking them.

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Chad's junta leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno, is due to sign an agreement with around 40 rebel groups in Qatar on Monday that is supposed to pave the way for a return to civilian rule, diplomats said.

Firefighters said Sunday that two fires broke out late Sunday afternoon in the Double forest in western Dordogne, burning “about a hundred hectares.”

The UN Secretary-General on Monday described any attack on nuclear power plants as “suicidal” and called for an end to military operations around the one in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, so that the International Energy Agency atomic (IAEA) can access it.

OM and its new coach Igor Tudor were already under pressure after a failed preparation but, with Dimitri Payet only replacing, they did not miss their entry into the French Championship by clearly beating Reims (4-1) on Sunday at the Stade V& eacute; lodrome during the first day of the competition.