Energy sobriety plan: towards reducing France's energy consumption to 10% in two years

Aiming to reduce France's energy consumption by 10% in two years and to make the country go through the winter without cuts in gas or electricity in the meantime, the French government is presenting its energy sobriety plan, intended to prepare for winter, this Thursday, October 6, 2022 with great fanfare Difficult, without Russian gas and with numerous nuclear reactors shut down. Several sectors are concerned. These include the world of sport, work, administrations, shops, industries... Among the dozens of “measures” planned, a call for less heating and less lighting, an encouragement for teleworking, a financial incentive for carpooling or even cutting off hot water in public administrations (except showers)... are included. A decree was published the same day in the Official Gazette to make it a general rule to switch off shop lights and illuminated advertising between 1 and 6 am.

War in Ukraine: Russian president hopes for stabilization

Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, has assured that the military situation will “stabilize” in the Ukrainian territories whose annexation he claims. However, its forces are suffering a series of setbacks against the Ukrainian military.

After its successes in Kherson (south) and Kharkiv (northeast), a few hours earlier, Ukraine announced that it was regaining ground in the Lugansk region (east). Putin says: “We assume that the situation will stabilize and that we will be able to develop these areas peacefully.” Thus, the Russian president signed a decree for Russia to formally appropriate the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia (south). For his part, the head of the IAEA Rafael Grossi announced his departure for Kiev to discuss the need “more urgent than ever” to establish “a protection zone around [this] power plant.

Nobel for Literature: a succession of the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah and the poet Louise Glück

This Thursday, October 6, 2022, the Nobel Prize for Literature is being awarded by a Swedish Academy that is more unpredictable than ever. He will respond at 13:00 (1100 GMT) in Stockholm, to succeed the British novelist of Tanzanian origin Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) and the American poet Louise Glück (2020). Indeed, this year, critics and prognosticators are divided between two schools. Some therefore see in the latest prizes the confirmation that the Academy does not like writers who are already well known, especially when they are already selling a lot of books. Others think it could vary by honoring a world-famous author, or at least in the list of usual suspects.

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Seven months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 44 leaders of the continent are meeting in Prague on Thursday, in a new format that is also a strong symbol.

On Thursday, October 6, 2022, North Korea launched two new ballistic missiles and called these weapons tests “just retaliatory measures” against Washington and Seoul and their military exercises in the region.

To support prices, OPE+ decided to drastically cut oil production quotas, immediately drawing the ire of the White House, which accused the cartel of “aligning” with Moscow.

In recent days, Iranian school girls have dared to take off their headscarves and organize rallies to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, defying the murderous repression of the demonstrations that have been taking place for nearly three weeks in Iran.

Since the start of the season, Paris SG has been expecting upheavals on Wednesday, October 5, 2022 in the Champions League when they attacked Benfica Lisbon, which was carried by the enthusiastic crowd at the La Luz stadium.